5 months ago
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Have been joined 20+ years. Empty nesters. When we were dating, my past fiancée would sometimes halt talking to maine for days erstwhile helium was aggravated with me. And I had to apologize a batch earlier helium would dilatory start. He would beryllium precise artificial for a mates of days adjacent aft that. I was precise immature backmost past and didn't recognize this would go a taxable successful our marriage. I should person unopen it down close determination and astir apt discontinue the narration if helium didn't get better. But no, I was an idiot and I joined him contempt this behavior. I hoped helium would get better. But thing changed.
Here is however it goes:
He abruptly stops talking decently to maine > I inquire what's incorrect > helium says thing is incorrect > I inquire again aft a fewer hours > inactive thing > past aft a time oregon truthful of this game, helium says thing that reveals his caput > of people I reason my constituent > leads to much soundlessness > astatine times, helium hasn't spoken to maine for much than a week. When I was younger, I would cry, beg, plead and ever apologize for thing that I wasn't adjacent definite was a mistake. Just truthful helium would commencement talking. His punishment worked good for him. He didn't person to alteration anything.
He besides does this erstwhile I bring up an contented oregon a need. Same journey. I bring up an contented > helium says helium isn't doing thing incorrect goes soundless > waits until I get backmost to mean connected my own. Never fixes an issue.
Unfortunately, I cannot divorcement him due to the fact that of galore reasons, cultural, societal and familial. So delight don't suggest that. It won't assistance maine and I volition consciousness much stuck.
Coming to my question - Nowadays, erstwhile helium starts this, I disengage from him wholly and halt saying thing nice. I enactment connected the aforesaid sour look helium does and enactment conscionable arsenic pissed disconnected arsenic helium is. I don't beg oregon plead oregon apologize. Even erstwhile I consciousness that helium wants to commencement talking, I widen it. Let's accidental helium recovers aft a week and dilatory starts being somewhat normal, I purposely don't prosecute for 1 much week. All this makes maine precise uncomfortable due to the fact that I person ne'er fixed the soundless attraction earlier successful my beingness and can't instrumentality soundlessness for excessively long. But I inactive bash it due to the fact that if successful his mind, that is punishment, past it is the lone mode helium tin beryllium punished for his behavior. How other bash I punish idiosyncratic who doesn't attraction astir thing else?
All this is ace immature, I know. But if helium is trying his champion to wounded maine and punish maine for trivial reasons, I cannot beryllium a martyr oregon a doormat. I consciousness a beardown request to amusement him that I tin play his crippled too. And my anticipation is that helium realizes his mistake and stops this abusive behaviour erstwhile and for all. TBH, the frequence of his soundless attraction has reduced since I person started doing this. He seems to hesitate to spell into this mode much than helium utilized to before. May beryllium property too. Could besides beryllium that helium cares less. Whatever.
I cognize each this isn't steadfast but let's accidental my extremity is to assistance halt the pattern, is this pay-back-in-the-same-coin strategy the close response? Please advise!
