I’d wager her husband long ago learned how to say. “fine, dear”, and an equivalent of “anything you say, dear” —without letting on he was faking it.
Smart guys do.
Dumb ones like me get tired of it, and just let it rip.
Joke ‘em if they can’t take a you-know-what.
I have a very high IQ (or at least used to, before I took to chugging bottles of Ultra-Dim Fast) but “emotional IQ” in low/challenged/rides a short bus range, with my own personal social IQ not all that much better. Or so I’ve been told, and evidence seems to suggest...