On the anger versus volume issue...he does speak very loudly when he's on the phone with his family and I usually have to go to another room...but this is different...he kind of gets in an anger trance...He becomes completely illogical. For example, I was trying to let him know that the text message was strange and he said..."Well then, you should have known it wasn't me...do I talk like that? I don't think so." He said it in a very sarcastic way, so I calmly said "But, I got a text from your phone...yes, it was strange syntax, but who else should I have thought it was from if I were not aware of the auto-reply feature?" It was as if, once we figured out hours later that the phone had sent the message, it would have changed my initial reaction...meaning, my reaction before we'd figured it out....When I try to explain this to him, he accuses me of beating a dead horse.

I get that men HATE to over-talk stuff. I thought we were having a conversation, but he just got angrier...eh...I don't think it's really a cultural difference (he's been here almost 20 years) but it may be a gender difference.