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10 Signs Your Wife is an Emotional Bully
Marriage Radio ^ | 12-28-2016 | Dr Tara J. Palmatier, PsyD

Posted on 12/28/2016 11:24:58 AM PST by rhett october

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To: rhett october
#2 sums the whole thing up with: "it's never enough."

It's Never Enough has become my philosophy of life, such as "It's Never Enough" when it comes to work, kids, relationship with God, your spouse, etc. What it means to me is you try to do your best everyday.

My wife's family is all about drama. Impossible to avoid, as she has six sisters, all of them fighting to be the matriarch of the family.

It's gotten to the point where my daughter confided in me that her mother was driving her nuts, as it pertains to our grandson. His parents split up a few years ago, and he splits time with them. Conflicts obviously arise around Christmas and other occasions, and they've done a pretty good job of it...except when "Nana" expects him to be at her family's gatherings.

My daughter even said she thinks my wife is more focused on "her family" rather than "our family". I could only shrug my shoulders. After 35 years, the tune's been played out. To mangle another metaphor, the cake's been baked.

41 posted on 12/28/2016 11:42:00 AM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: Vendome

This person gave rise to my invention: KuhRayZeeBitchitis...


42 posted on 12/28/2016 11:42:57 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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To: TwelveOfTwenty

The stuff i witnessed was consensual, and they had this thing called the “safe word” meaning “it hurts, stop”. Frat hazing stuff. The wife of our frat grandmaster was into this stuff...


43 posted on 12/28/2016 11:43:21 AM PST by max americana (For the 9th time FIRED LIBERALS from our company at this election, and every election since 2008)
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To: MayflowerMadam
Ladies, does your husband do any of these things to you?

Hey!! Don't go hijacking the thread. The myth that girls are sugar and spice and everything nice left out the "crazy" ingredient.

/s

44 posted on 12/28/2016 11:43:44 AM PST by BipolarBob
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To: Organic Panic

Like: You just can’t put up with her shit, anymore...


45 posted on 12/28/2016 11:43:49 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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To: rhett october

When my wife is irritated with me, she reminds me she knows enough about plants to get a degree in botany, and has a lot of useful plants in the yard that will make a nice cup of tea for me.

Is that bullying?


46 posted on 12/28/2016 11:45:27 AM PST by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: rhett october
Stay below the Hot/Crazy line!

Hot Crazy Matrix - A Man's Guide to Women

47 posted on 12/28/2016 11:45:51 AM PST by Yo-Yo ( Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Vendome

I can’t help it - I’ve been binge-watching “Married With Children” ;’}


48 posted on 12/28/2016 11:45:54 AM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: rhett october; All
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49 posted on 12/28/2016 11:46:44 AM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: rhett october

The psycho-b!tch I was married to probably exhibited seven of ten of these. I stuck it out until the boys were grown and the daughter was a teenager.

After all of the threats all of the years I turned the tables and dumped her. It has been open warfare for the last thirty-four years but not without a certain gratification.

Still, you do what you have to do.


50 posted on 12/28/2016 11:47:05 AM PST by x1stcav (Leftism is like rust: It corrodes 24 hours a day until eradicated.)
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To: Night Hides Not
"#2 sums the whole thing up with: "it's never enough."

Maybe you're just like my mother...
She's never satisfied...


51 posted on 12/28/2016 11:47:21 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Organic Panic

I had a similar experience but ended up marrying her. She turned out to have insane jealousy toward anyone. I don’t know how she kept it bottled in but it all poured out on our wedding night and she had a psychotic break and ended up on the bedroom floor in the fetal position with her fingers and toes all knurled up. I was in a state of shock so I went to the ice machine and filled the tub full and put her in it!

We managed to stay together for 9 more years (got her on Zoloft about 4 months in and that helped with the PMS raging) until I could no longer take it and threw her out. I couldn’t talk about anything that happened during my day for fear of triggering her episodes.


52 posted on 12/28/2016 11:48:27 AM PST by shotgun
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To: Organic Panic
The Universal Hot vs. Crazy Matrix

Let this be your guide!

53 posted on 12/28/2016 11:48:30 AM PST by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: BipolarBob

There’s a new element on the periodic table and they are acting like they just found it.

I think they only now came up with a proper name : Bitchitium....


54 posted on 12/28/2016 11:50:14 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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To: Organic Panic

Advice I give to young men:

No matter how hot she looks, no matter how much you want her, there’s some guy tired of putting up with her crap.


55 posted on 12/28/2016 11:50:21 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (Everywhere is freaks and hairies Dykes and fairies Tell me where is sanity?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
My ex-wife, to a tee.

Mine too!

56 posted on 12/28/2016 11:50:23 AM PST by MAexile (Bats left, votes rights)
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To: gas_dr

I am so sorry all that happened to you.
I know in the early days of my marriage I had some of these traits. It was the fallout from the repressed anger of what I saw growing up. My husband is so patient and loving. I wish I could talk to young men and women and tell them all that anger is effective for one thing only: pushing people out of your life.
I came to Jesus in 1998. I now thank the Lord for my husband.
I hope you haven’t soured on all women although I could understand if you did. Many women have experienced the same and feel the same too. It’s such a colossal waste of time and life is too short. May you find peace and happiness.


57 posted on 12/28/2016 11:50:40 AM PST by karatemom
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To: gas_dr
I feel your pain, brother.

I vowed that I would never let another man raise my kids, and I've stuck to it. My parents divorced when I was six, and they played my sister and I like ping pong balls. Fortunately, my stepfather was a great influence on me.

My newfound interest in wine and viticulture has become an escape valve. Not because of the alcohol, but because I can get out of the house if I need to, and whether it's a winery or a wine bar, there's almost always someone to strike up a conversation with.

I'm extroverted in that regard, and I've learned that my daughter and grandson are like me.

There are times when my wife will join me, and she enjoys a good glass of wine, too. It puts us in a nonthreatening location, and enables us to change the conversation.

One bit of advice: be leery of middle aged women who've preceded you to that location by an hour or more. After their second bottle, they can become very "friendly." lol

58 posted on 12/28/2016 11:51:27 AM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: shotgun
Thus the old saying when you see a single pretty girl...”Some guy, somewhere, got sick of her crap”

True fact: there are at least four men that got tired of putting up with Christie Brinkley's crap. lol

59 posted on 12/28/2016 11:53:12 AM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: karatemom

Women don’t have a monopoly on being a-holes...and neither do men.


60 posted on 12/28/2016 11:53:48 AM PST by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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