Your recent posts have left me thinking about your sitch, Muddle. You are obviously a truly intellectual person and I can see how your W might feel "stupid" in comparison to you. She's now staked out the "feeling" ground as her "strength". My W has in the past kind of hit me with the same stuff, "You are a thinker, I am a feeler" (a friend of mine says, "she sure is, she feels anger all the time!"). She can't beat you intellectually, as I'm sure you can defend and philosophize to beat the best of them, so she goes for the pure emotion stuff. It seems you are at opposite poles and it's hard to find a centre. She takes your book cuz she sees you stocking your weapons silo and she feels defenseless. I don't know how this helps you in any way but it's just something that strikes me. Also, please don't think that I in anyway am saying you are purposely making her feel stupid, she does that to herself. But your propensity to examine logically etc. probably makes her feel all she can do is stick her tongue out and hide your books! She seems to be feeling pretty defenseless and helpless right now. What can you do? Maybe others will have some thoughts for you.