My wife yells and rants and raves a lot about her needs. Ever since we got married she’s been very controlling about what I do (like when I go on a business trip I can’t even have one beer because she “knows what happens on those trips”. FYI I’ve been doing it before I met her and never “hooked up” with anyone on a business trip). When she gets mad, she tells me horrible things like “She needs to talk to my ex. wife because my ex. should have me back because I’m such a problem” or “I just use her to take care of my kids (they are only with us a few days a week. Otherwise it’s her kid all the time) and she’s sick of being used and I’m the last person who will ever use her” or “ I totally disrespect her and that I don’t care about her at all” if I fail to see 100% of her needs all the time. She is a very attractive woman who has a great personality but once you go below the surface there is something from her past that eats at her. I’m starting to realize now why she was single. Beautiful women are usually snatched up pretty quick and she was never married or even dating anyone when I met her (she’s 30). She acts like I’m the worst thing that ever happened to her even though I know that if I wasn’t married to her, I’d have been gone a long time ago. When I talk to her about past relationships, she constantly talks about being used, abused, and so forth and so on. My opinion is that it takes two to make a relationship work and if she said the things she says to me to her previous guys, they probably high tailed it out of there. My question is this: Does she say these things to me because she thinks I am actually the worst thing that has happened to her or is her self esteem in the crapper and she’s threatened by mine? Usually they say that people who verbally abuse say to you what they are thinking about themselves. So does she think she is using me, she’s disrespecting me, she’s thinking I should give her back to some previous boyfriend and knows what goes on in business trips because she’s actually had something happen on a trip? When people verbally abuse, are they really talking about you or themselves? How much should I listen to and how much should I just say “crap she’s talking about herself again. I’m tuning out”? I know sometimes people get upset out of frustration but to listen to her say these horrible things to me like “I wish I would have never met you” and “you’re not a man” then love me again the next day….I don’t know. One thing to add, according to her I have mood issues not her. I never did before I met her.
2007-01-16
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