Posted by Dinah on August 7, 2005, at 17:36:57
In reply to Re: Vacation was good for me, posted by Sonya on August 7, 2005, at 15:05:52
That must have hurt. I'm sorry. Do you think there is any way to educate him? My tries at joint counseling have ended up causing more harm than good, but others have had success with it.
I don't think it's so much the mental illness stigma at my house. Maybe at work, where they think I'm way too high strung, but not at home so much.
But I do get an awful lot of migraines, and sleep an awful lot as well (most likely from diabetes, although my neurologist swears I have narcolepsy). So I guess I really don't pull my fair share of the weight in the house.
I think most of all that my husband is exceptionally competent. And he gets annoyed that not everyone else is as competent as he is. He thinks that if he can do it, everyone should be able to.
He gets annoyed at work, and he gets annoyed at home. At work he can't say anything (or he wouldn't get those stellar performance reviews) so I think he gets doubly annoyed with us. And maybe since my son was born, I might try to draw his displeasure so my son won't get as much.
To be truthful, I really enjoy the upside of having a genius super-competent husband. Which has always been my theory. That the characteristics we like least in others are the flip side of their strengths.
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