(((((Cyran0))))) once again I'm a day late and a dollar short, but I really wanted to say first you're not a villian, you're human, you were tired and frustrated! It sounds as though your wife was as well.

You know I love ya to death, but I could hear your wife's thoughts going through my head as I was reading your posts. I KNEW why she was upset and knew what she was going to say. In fact that could have been a verbatim transcript of my husband and I 10 - 12 years ago. In fact there's probably one other thing she didn't mention, she was frustrated, irritated, hurt and just plain mad as hell because you had to ask what her problem was.

The baby years are so exhausting, worth it, but it is so draining. The fights over the kids will continue, but when they're older you won't be as tired.

The flame in your marriage will rekindle, if you feed it. I'm sure you know all of these things.

I know your frustration, I really do, I've been stuck in MN in the middle of an ice storm making no headway, the stress and anxiety the whole mess. In 92 I think, it took us 10 hours to get from Duluth to Fargo.(My husband used to chew and use a soda bottle for a spittoon and in the middle of the whole mess I take a big old swig.... ew memories)

But the bit of advice that I'd really like to give you, is even though right now your days seem so long and exhausting, you're going to blink and suddenly your child isn't going to want to play with you anymore and you will never ever get this time back. I speak from my own personal regret, all the hours I wasted worrying about housework when I could have been enjoying time with my kids.

I really hope you and your wife get things straightened out. And another vitural (((((hug))))).