[ So how am I doing so far? Not that your opinion matters but I'm just curious as to how you're going to blow up over this response. ;-)
Of course my opinion doesn't matter...I'm just a woman. An emotional woman who "blows up" instead of a real man who is honest and direct and speaks his mind. Which wouldn't be a double standard or anything.
I couldn't possibly know what a woman is thinking better than you, of course...you, who don't even have to read people's threads to give them love advice. You don't have to bother to read a guy's sitch to know what would be appropriate in dealing with his woman. You know how to train pets. ;-)
Since none of this has anything to do with tristan's complicated situation between two human beings, I will let that be enough.
Apologies, tristan, for hijacking your thread. I don't think you sound insecure or are acting insecure...what was insecure was when you were jealous of your wife's promotion and took it out on her in a passive aggressive way. But you know that now and are moving forward.