Husband roommate and conflicts
Q: My husband and I have been in a terrible place over the last couple of months and its heavy today. Sunday was a pretty big fight, and he said he would rather be by himself than continue like this..im not mad, I agree..but I don't want to give up. We've become roommates. When we argue, I need closure. I need to talk things out and get back to a good place. He likes to separate until we calm down and then act like nothing ever happened, which is how things are always handled. I keep quiet about my needs because he is so much louder and more aggressive than I am, so I walk away, cry and try to pretend Im ok. There's never an apology or working things out, and his words can be so harsh its like he ripped my heart out. I feel like 90% of the time, I'm just trying to be ok. It has worked that way since we started dating 20 years ago..but im officially on empty. I can't keep pouring from an empty cup. I've become numb, and he takes it as me having an attitude, whi...