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Originally Posted by SallyBrown
You guys!!
Thanks so much, MKAC, I really need to hear that sometimes and now is definitely it. At the moment, the biggest things is feeling overwhelmed by how much this sucks and feeling like I can't deal with.
One thing I said to him was, "I have a hard time believing that all of a sudden, after so long, we just became incompatible." He said, "Well, that's my understanding so far... and I had taken it to be yours, too?" Which is just so... I don't know how he can consider that a satisfactory answer. I told him that no, I felt like something had changed, like when I broke my collarbone as a teenager and went to a specialist who walked in talking about my broken wrist. Wrong Xrays, buddy. I felt like T had been walking in with the wrong Xrays every day for weeks.
Then again, I know not everyone is on a rabid quest for the truth, but still. I truly don't get where he's coming from, because if this is hurting him so much, why is he just accepting it as fact? I know he's been talking to others about the situation, but seems to come up with nothing. It's kind of like... nothing is less believable than something outrageous, if that makes any sense. It's like one of those little indicators people pick up to detect suspicious behavior... like when the parents of missing kids just sort of say, "we can't think of anything that was different that day," you start to feel weird about it because most parents of missing kids would be going over that day with a fine tooth comb to think of anything at all. That's a weird example, sorry, I've been reading a crime blog recently 
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You said before that he is generally quite passive, right? I think that is the explanation. Do you remember me complaining about my husband? And that I confronted him about certain things he was doing and NOT doing that were driving us apart? When I told him that I mentally given him a time limit to get his act together, and if things were not better by May, I wanted him to move out, he cried and was upset, AND THEN HE PACKED. It was like he was just giving up and accepting that things were over and he wasn't even going to TRY in the intervening six months between when I told him that, and the deadline, to change anything. We did start going back to marriage counseling, and things improved, but HE wasn't doing anything to get us there. I still had to be the one making the appointments, etc. He insists he loves me, he simply got overwhelmed and depressed and saw no hope, so couldn't take any action. Maybe something similar is happening for your T.