Sooooo, two weeks ago I give my wife a small gift for Mother's Day (no card). I gave her a cross-stitch set, because I know that's something she enjoyed when she was a teenager. I tried not to make a big deal out of the gift, but I suppose some part of me was hoping it would appeal to some good place inside her, a place that's calm and not full of turmoil. In any case, the day before Mother's Day I asked if she'd mind if I took her out to brunch or something. She said she wasn't interested, but that she would come over for breakfast Sunday morning. She shows up around 8:15am. I was surprised because I wasn't expecting her until 9a or 9:30a. So, I give her the gift, and I'm expecting her to open it, look, maybe say thank you, and that's about it. Wellllll, she opens the gift, and literally spends a good 45 minutes just flipping through the instruction book, looking at the different threads, etc... She ended up staying from 8:15a until about 7:30p that evening, doing nothing but cross-stitching all day long!
Fast forward to last week Friday. It's after work and my wife and I agree to take the kids out to eat, and then to take our son together to his martial arts workout. When she stops by after work the first thing I notice is that she is not wearing her wedding ring. I got kind of nervous because, so far, she has worn her wedding ring every day since she moved out almost three months ago. Me, being the genius that I am, make the dumb mistake of asking her why she's not wearing her ring. Wellllllllll, she has a fit, get's kind of angry, throws some blame around, spews a bunch of....what did someone here call it?.....'fog babble' about how she can't trust me, etc...etc... My only defense was that our wedding rings are an important symbol for me personally, and that it bothered me to see her without her ring. She sorta goes off with the "you can't tell me what to do", "It's my choice to wear the ring or not" and so forth.
After that uhhhh.....conversation I was fully expecting that I would continue to see her without her ring. Nope. The very next day I see her with the ring, and have every day since. What gives?!
