Waiting More Than a Dozen Years

[Bagheera]

Since she came home last night, she's spoken all of six words to me. I'm going to let her go on like this for about the next week and then sit her down and say: "see what this is like, see what effort and what anger there is for you in knowing that you are intentionally not going to speak to me because of what might be going on on the other side? That's what it is like for me most of the time. If you did this everyday of the remainder of your marriage to me, you'd still be almost 23 years behind me in experience. And I'm hardly a tyrant compared to many other people."

Refresh our memory, please:

(1) Why is she not speaking to you?
(2) How is this a role-reversal from the past 23 years?
(3) What do you hope to accomplish with this planned discussion?

-- B.