Before I start, things have been going VERY well lately.
We had another disagreement over her yelling at our kids. Last night our S4 was complaining about his dinner W made him so W was getting frustrated (understandably so). He started to complain about something else and W started to YELL. As she started I calmly but assertively said "okay, okay", trying to calm the situation. Those were the only 2 words that came out of my mouth. W got upset, left us at the dinner table and went upstairs. (I understand when she gets upset over me "taking sides" in front of the kids, but I feel like I didn't do that here. I'm sure she would disagree.) After she came back down she was quiet and she was like that for the rest of the night. We didn't talk about it.
It REALLY bothers me when she screams at our kids. It's embarrassing. She goes from zero to livid in the blink of an eye. W freely admits I have much more patience with our kids than she does (I would never point this out or use it against her). We have excellent kids. Our son can be whiny and bratty at times but he's 4 years old. W ADORES our kids, but her patience with them, at times, is a big problem.
Were now at work together and she's obviously still upset. She just came into my office to show me a cool commercial she just saw that featured a car similar to the one we own. At the end I said "cool commercial, the cars pretty much the same as ours". She said "ya, thanks" sarcastically and walked out. I was confused so I went to talk to her. I said "I don't understand why you just got upset, I just mentioned the car was similar to ours". She said she took it as me saying "ya so what, the car is similar to ours" then pointed out it was 2 years newer. I was so obviously confused that I went to go shut her office door so I could talk to her. Before I could shut it she said "I don't need another lecture". I shut the door and asked her what was wrong. She said she's just in a bad mood. I asked her if she wanted to talk about it but she said no, so I told her if/when she wanted to to let me know, and I left it at that.
Her behavior has admittedly made me VERY uneasy inside although I'm trying not to show it.
I'm terrible at writing my thoughts and explaining circumstances so I hope I'm painting the appropriate picture here.
Thoughts would be appreciated...
M-38 W-32 D7, S4 M-10 BD-May '12 S for 1 month-June '12 Reconcile, Piecing
