Awkward Situation Got Much Worse (part 3)

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You must present yourself as a strong man. She is not going to make it easy, and although you may not feel very brave inside...you can act as if you are determined.

... It was about her outward show of disrespect when she demanded you leave the room. How did it end? If your kids had been observing, what life lesson (if any) would they have taken away from this scene with their parents?

Thanks for your perspective once again.

I have absolutely no problem standing up to my wife. The continual problem is that I stand up to her, then she becomes very nasty and bitter and begins her typical rant about how much she hates me, that I am a negative person (ironically, I am known as the most upbeat person among my coworkers and friends), etc. She absolutely disrespects me in front of the kids at least once per week. She is stubborn, so absolutely stubborn, and rant on in front of the kids. I tell her she needs to stop, and she eventually will, only to become bitter again at some point in the evening after the kids go to bed.

So, the short of it is that anytime I stand up to my W, I can expect her to try to argue the rest of the day.

A couple months ago, my W got very bad about interrupting my conversations with the kids to give her opinion, rudely tell the kids that what I said was not correct or was my opinion and not a common opinion, etc. I called her out on it and requested that she stop interrupting our conversations. At one point, she was doing this so much that I told her if we divorce, she will have no say at all in what the kids and I talk about. She has done this less often.

On a similar note, after her late return with the kids, I told her that if this continues to be a problem, we will start alternating weekends with the kids. Although my W was mad with me that evening, part of her yelling at me after I went to bed turned into her trying to defend why she was 2 hours late coming home with the kids.