Good info eric, thanks.

Kind of leads into my next question. She is angry/tense all the time I am around. Just my presence alone, I don't have to speak. However, when I do speak, even something innocuous, the anger/tension comes out in a disrespectful tone. I don't think I am being over sensitive.

I don't think it is right for me to allow her to speak to me in that tone. How does one approach that? Or do I just stop speaking at all? Or, do I just say to myself that she is angry with life and not to take it personally? Or, is that codependent justification? Ha, could keep going round and round here....


me 41 w43
married 20 years
BD 10/10/13 ILYBNILWY....
4 kids, 21,18,8,6