No need for apologies, ME1967. I was exaggerating just a bit with the "tear me a new one" comment. Anyway, if anyone should know to "assume goodwill" in online conversations like that, I should. I didn't mean to freak you out there...
Unfortunately, sometimes I have the worst problem with those nonverbal signals of tone and body language. I can't read them unless they're blatantly obvious, and I have trouble controlling the ones I send. Maybe that's another reason why I "walk on eggshells"--because, even if I phrase my words correctly, my tone or body language could cause my wife to get upset, so I keep erring so far on the side of caution that I sabotage my own cause. Is there any way for me to turn that "sensitivity knob" down?
- "A"
"Everything that happens, happens. Everything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen. Everything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again."
