I meant to respond to your post but got caught up in the other questions.
"Walking on eggshells"...rings a bell. "super-sensitive", too.
Are you referring to yourself or your wife?
She complains that I don't communicate, don't let her in, etc, etc. typical guy, right? well, when I have "communicated", the result is her flying off the handle in response. and they wonder why we don't "communicate".
To me, I sense a dismissive theme in these comments. My guess is that if she says you don’t communicate, then you don’t, at least not in a language she can hear. That may be because she needs to be validated to support some false image she has of herself and she doesn’t want to hear anything less. As wrong as that may be, if you stop any communication, how will you ever help her to see her issues that are then impacting you? The communication needs to flow first, then it can tweaked into more appropriate language.
It said I was "dismissive". whatever that means...
Dismissive seems pretty appropriate to me.
Dr. Laura...hard to take seriously by anyone born after 1960; particularly, anyone female. There may be bits of truth to gleen from it, but the messenger makes it awfully hard to swallow.
I don’t understand this comment. What is special about 1960 as a cut-off point for accept Dr. Laura or not. Are you referring to your wife or you too? I can understand that Dr. Laura sounds threatening to women, but I don’t know why men would find her distasteful.
