Thanks so much for all your input. It is all very valuable. I had a crappy couple of days and now I'm back on keel.
It seems like it would be so much easier if we could just talk about it. I think that's what you would do in a healthy relationship. A partner can't control what their partner is doing, but they can have some understanding of it. Since we don't talk, everything just sits out there.
That is my goal for a healthy relationship, to have a partner that tells me when I'm doing something that bothers them so I have a chance to correct it AND to be able to ask my partner why they're doing something that bothers me so that they can correct it (or at least I can understand why they won't).
Married - 19 years Noticed Problem - Aug 2008 THE Conversation - Oct 2008
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.