Let me ask you guys a question. I have noticed something that has got me thinking. What do you make of this, if anything:
All through our marriage, I have been relatively passive. I never wanted to fight or argue, which I'm sure had a lot to do with our current problems. We never fought. Recently, she said something that made me think, and then realize that it wasn't the first time she has said something similar. I overheard a neighbor of ours saying that his new girlfriend talked back to him where his old girlfriend didn't. When I told W this, she said "Sometimes you need that." I remember a time when she even said she wished someone would yell at her. I know that as a kid her father yelled and belittled her and her sisters often when they were kids, so I always thought I shouldn't appear to be like her Dad, but I probably took it too far by not even disagreeing with her stronger than just making a passing remark. The only time I got a positive reaction from her was when I stood up to her when she started talking about dividing the house and custody.
If this is something that I have overlooked, how can I use it now? Or should I?


Me-40
W-41
Together-10
M-8
S-6
S-4
Bomb 5/08
Bomb 10/08
Thought things were better, was wrong.
Still living together
Wife doesn't think she will ever love me again.