She really does respond very negatively to absolutely any kind of structured approach to R's. Similar to the way she once told me "I don't want to tell you what is wrong in our R because then you are just going to try to fix it", I think she feels that if she tells me what she needs or wants in the way of love, then I am going to do that, and that would be a way of manipulating her.
[complaining] You know, this really bothers me. I feel that the issues separating us are relatively minor and mostly involve just communicating better. We still have a lot in common and get along well.
If we could just work through the issues with a structured approach, I think we could get past these things and...
Why can't she just... [/complaining]
Me 42, W 39, S8, S6, S2 M 11y, A & ILYBNILWY 11/08 Walking away from a bad situation.