Still_Learning,
What an awesome post that was! On behalf of Weeping and any other woman who reads it I'd like to say Thanks - even though I'm a bloke.

With regard to "and he's not good at admitting fault (which in a man's mind is FAILURE, to them)", I'll confess this is me as well. I don't know why I find it so hard to admit fault. I'd like to think it's genetics or something in the way the masculine/feminine stereotypes are brainwashed into us as we grow up. It's a bit like the whole asking for directions thing. At least that explanation gets me off the hook, if it's not that, then I'm just an arse!

Weeping, it does sound as though you may benefit from some couples therapy. Having a third party point out our mistakes can work wonders in waking us men up to our faults. Knowing a third party knows them is also an amazing incentive to fixing them. The male ego doesn't like someone thinking we're letting our SO down.