[quote]Your interactions with your wife are downers. You can be attractive without pursuing. Go back and look for the opportunites you had to lead, look at how you stifled the conversations and look at how your negative attitude permeated the whole night.[/quoate]

Can you be a little more specific?

Isn't the idea to not to engage in silliness while maintaining a civil attitude? Not falling into traps that I have before?

Please tell me where I went wrong by stifling the conversation. I have done a lot of "I am sorry that you feel that way", "How can I help you feel different?", listened with open mind, not interrupting when she talks to me. Disagreeing only when it has nothing to do with us or our R and doing it with respect.

Help me here Coach. It was her negative attitude that was permiating and I managed to stop it from spreading so that neither of us could talk for hours.

I'm not sure I follow you here. Please guide me.