Love the thread title, that is one of my favorite movies...
rH has given you excellent advice....this is part of the game, seems they like to try to draw you off sides before the snap with little things like that, know what I mean? Testing, testing, testing...
Poking the cat is not a game plan that'll get you to the final four...they have very sharp claws. I had to learn this the hard way, twice.
From her response, she knows...my W did the same things, looking for a way to take what I said as something either to justify her actions, or a test to see if I was really changing my ways, or if I was still the controlling parental figure, or whatever...still don't know all of it.
I agree with rH, she isn't done yet, but still isn't sure what she wants...I can tell you that she is likely questioning herself in her moments of clarity, something like "What am I doing, do I want to hurt my kids, do I want to destroy all this, he isn't THAT bad"...my W told me this a few weeks ago, that she thought this even in the worst of angry alien spew monster mode and while in her EAs/PA.
Stay out of your own way (the phone comment was you getting in your own way). Stay out of hers. Though I am a big planner, I do like to condense things down to bullet items, and at the top of my list is "STFU, T2"...so whenever I saw/heard/discovered things, I went out found something to burn off the anger and frustration...A good high volume workout, HIIT, a long bike ride, etc.
Recently, upon admission of the PA, Snodderly gave me a nice 2X4, to put my ego away.
Stick to your game plan, focus on the big picture, the whole season, not each individual game...know what I mean?
Hang in there my friend, you are in the thick of it as rH said...sounds like W is in the stage my W was at about a year ago or so...this is a crucial time, be that man she'd be a fool to leave, don't let her draw you off sides... T^2
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
