Just hold on there missy!!!! YOU HAVE NOT SUNK TO A NEW LOW what YOU did, was take a stand for yourself against an intangible enemy that you were trying to battle the best way you knew how for the moment.
Call ME crazy, but I personally believe that being passive all the time just makes US dislike ourselves so we have to get up the gumpsion to put on our war face and do battle with the demons.
The way I looked at it with my H was that trying to always be the shoulder to learn on or the understanding cheerleader on the sidelines while my H was being a total jerk only made it easy for my H to continue being an idiot. Once I told myself, look, you can take this lying down or you can go bat sh$t and speak up...a whole new world opened up to me.
If we're gonna lose these guys out of our lives our acting strong ISN'T what's going to push them away, it's our whimpiness that keeps them away.
Put up your dukes girl, cause sometimes ya just have to get into the frey. T2