I took what you wrote "I notice that my wife is ALWAYS telling me how to do everything - I usually ignore it " as meaning that you usually just blew her off as if she didn't say anything at all, no acknowledgement of what she was saying, nothing...
...which is different than ignoring the fact that she was being unpleasant and being nice/cordial anyway. And why I asked because I couldn't tell which you meant.
In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. - Albert Camus
Uncertainty is the very condition which impels people to unfold their powers.-Eric Fromm
