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Essentially she is afraid of losing control.


You are not listening to her. You make her feel insecure and are feeding her feelings of insecurity. Sounds a little like you are losing control and it's making you feel insecure. See the dynamic there?

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I have not problems asking for what I want. W has gone along with my wants for a long time. (I didn't know she was going along...I thought that she just agreed). Therefore, she has felt controlled by me too.



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Now she has become the controlling one.


So who really was the controlling one?


Has she ever told you she feels invisible, smothered, or a lost soul?

You can handle this. You just need to have some compassion for her.


Cheers


M22,H45,W45 S21/18D12
Retain faith that you will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties and at the same time confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.