Yes it is a man thing, a man thing in that we look at something and say "I have to provide, protect, lead and care for my family". It's so ingrained you don't even think that sentence you just do it not realizing you are doing it.
Now an update. I contacted her this morning to see about sitting down to finalize the asset split. She's prepared a worksheet that I don't entirely understand. So we agreed to sit down tonight to go through it so we can get the monetary assets split.
During that call I apologized if she felt pressure about going out again. I said I thought she wanted me to take the lead on that but I realized this came across as pressure and I didn't want to do that. She said she had said that but was feeling pressure now. She went on to say, "I know you aren't trying to apply pressure and that you mean well. Thank you."
So a little softening with her and here we are ever so slowly trying to communicate again. Man we have so far to go to learn to communicate with each other.
If we really want to love, we must learn how to forgive. - Mother Theresa
