Actually had a good heated conversation this morning.
I came downstairs committed to showing physical affection, only W slammed into me right away for moving her diskman. I found it for her, right where she put it, but she kept on about people leaving her stuff alone.
Instead of rebutting her statement, I told her she was so focused on blaming other people for things that she convinced herself her diskman wasn't were it was supposed to be, even though she was looking right at it. (She refused to believe the one I found was her's until I pointed out we only own four personal CD Players and they were all right there.)
Instead of rebutting my statement, she said I may have a point and that she did get angry right away.
A little later W started in on something else that was bothering her and I forgot my 180 to not offer advice and started in on what I thought she could do. She immediately cut me off, but instead of an argumentative comment, she said, "I don't want your input, I just need to vent and I want you to listen."
I said, "Okay, I'm just listening" and the morning got off to a good start after all!
