Lan - Man you take some chit bruv.....I am in total awe of your patience when what you describe seems so untolerable to me. My STBX also never had the word Sorry in her vocabulary and IMO, without that, there is no way a R can possibly work as one person will always end up backing down, whether wrong or right just for peace.
On the all women are XXXXXes front. Well, I would certainly say in my experience, they expect us to read signs that as men we just don't. Everyone should also read Venus and Mars IMO and I would say that has helped me with MOT35 and probably given me better R skills that DB, whereas DB helps me individually.