Living in the trenches....Thread #5

[Navyguy]

After reading my post a couple times, I decided I needed to go talk to W. I got up and noticed she had turned the lights off, so I guessed right that she had been planning to sleep downstairs. I felt like I am being punished and in my mind, I must have done something wrong.

So, I went down and asked if she was mad. She said no. I asked why she was sleeping downstairs. She said that it was nothing specific i did but that I have been getting on her nerves and she wanted space. I told her I feel like I must have done something wrong and that I'm beating myself up and can't figure out for the life of me why. W them asked if I'm trying to tell her that she's wrong for sleeping downstairs. Fortunately I didn't step on that land mine. I just told her that I don't think this is about right and wrong. If she feels like she needs to sleep downstairs, then that's what she needs. I said I guess I just need to take a step back and look at the big picture. Then I said good night and went back upstairs. Going to sleep now, W is still downstairs. Good night.