My 40 year old wife's MLC

[Troy999]

Hey Eric,
I decided to go the first weekend in November since the rates drop even lower after Nov1 and the water temp will still be in the 80s. I was doing a great job of STFU until last night. My son sprained his wrist at our football game Wed night and I took him to the doctor yesterday and they put him in a cast. No fracture which is good but they casted him up to stabilize it for a few weeks. My wife comes home and looks at the cast and mouths to me "This is so stupid". I got pissed and went our room to go to bed since I had to be up at 4:30am this morning. She follows me back and starts in on the Why won't you move out and leave me in peace speech. I tell her I have nothing to say to her and try to walk out the door to the screened porch to get away from her and she sluggs me twice on the back with her fists before I could get the door unlocked. I turned around and told her to hit me in the face if she is that angry and she starts crying. Says I am killing her by not leaving. Says she is going to have me served with papers that will make me move out. I said its my house if you are so unhappy then you should leave and I will handle the kids. She says she is going to take the kids and go to her parents. At this point I tried to say as little as possible. She said I am acting like everything is fine in my life and it pisses her off. She thinks I would be content to live like this for the rest of my life. Starts bringing up my parents marriage as an example of why I am so f'd up. I told her we don't get to pick our parents. After about 90 minutes her her crying and yelling I asked her what she wanted in her ideal relationship with a man and she said communication. That is it Communication and I had screwed up by not talking to her over the past two years.

I did my best to be quiet and listen but I did say some things.
She left it with the I am killing her statement I said that I was sorry she felt that way but she was free to leave at any time as long as she leaves the kids with me. Worst part is the kids had to hear it all. Their bedrooms are right next to ours.

My question is where is all of this anger coming from? You would think I was an adulter, wife beater and child abuser all rolled into one the degree of anger she has toward me.

Sucks but after getting two hours of sleep last night I feel pretty good today. I am going back to stfu strategy and see what happens.