When I suggested to my wife that we could afford a nice dinner if she'd not leave the lights on so often, she "embellished" my statement something like: you said, "You're a small stupid ignorant child and you need me to tell you how to live." I said, "You're embellishing. That's not what I said or how I meant it." She took great offense at me saying she was "embellishing", claiming that I was dismissing her feelings. I'll acknowledge her feelings, but I won't say that I meant something that I didn't mean. Heck, I could say, "It looks like rain." and she might feel I was telling her she was too stupid to know that she should get an umbrella to go outside. Just because she feels a certain way doesn't mean she can hold me responsible for her feelings, right?
2007-07-19
01:14:53
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Bill X
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