[ 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.
Since I never used the term "training pets", it might be safe to assume you have experience in this ;-)
The success I have achieved in my own life has been from being deprogrammed from this "trained pet" mentality.
Breakaway if you happen to "blow up" as you put it, instead of communicating honestly & directly, then that is what you do and I'll leave you to your ways.
As for knowing what/how a woman thinks, you probably have more than a clue but... (and you knew there was going to be a but), you don't know what any specific man or woman is ACTUALLY thinking. If you can admit to just that much, it's quite possible that in this situation, you could be right and possibly I could be right - I can entertain both possibilities but it sounds like you can't.
