Hopefully, yes. I do think having a project of my own that I love and can fill me up from the inside is quite helpful. However, if I was still coming back to Mr. Angry, it would make things awful still.
The good news was that H was open to my loving attitude. I just don't know how much of this attitude is from buying anew airplane. I don't trust it. But I"m riding the wave....
Continued to have a lovely friday family dinner (our ritual). H seemed genuinely pleased that I had all the food cooked and the table set ahead of time and he wasn't in as much of a rush to speed off as he usually is. Felt very relaxed and I got compliments on my cooking the last two nights!
Compare this to a few months ago, when he would not only refuse to eat anything I cooked, but would criticize it. He would rush in, rush out, and yell in between.