Unsurprisingly, the piece of paper has not magically made my EW any happier, or improved her attitude at all.
I sniped at her a little yesterday when she was trying to get our D to take a nap. She was being a bear, and I didn't exactly like the methods my EW was trying to use. I tried to go and see if I could calm D down, but EW barked orders at me, which is something that has really gotten off my nerves, because it feels like I'm some servant/child and not one of the parents. One of the "orders" was to leave the room to leave my D to cry herself out, and as I left, I just quipped, "yes master, yes master." Shortly after this had failed and my wife had escalated things making D cry even more, I went back to try and calm her down, we both reach down to pick her up at the same time, and EW told me to stop. I just looked at her and said, "You escalate."
I immediately regretted it afterwards. Not that I tried to step in, or that I said something, but just the words/tone I chose were not productive.
