Handling Arguments with Company Around

Okay, so, we all know we love our spouses unconditionally, right? Without doubt, we’ll be there for them? They can count on us? Okay, so it’s not always easy to know those things, but we believe that they’re true.

That doesn’t mean, however, that we always get along with our spouses or never get annoyed with them. Especially when we’re (I’m) in a compromised hormonal state (read as: PMSing) or are really tired (insomniac). Not that Bald Man isn’t occasionally annoying in his own right, I’m just giving him the benefit of the doubt right now.

So, anyway, I’ve been all kinds of compromised lately. And being compromised makes me edgy, irritable and very easily annoyed. Even by those that I love the most. Even the things that I normally think are fun or just silly about Bald Man become very plausible motivations for getting in the car, driving to a hotel, and engaging in a bit of solitary confinement for a week or two. That, or hurt him, and I wouldn’t want to do that. Expect that I do. In those moments. But I don’t.

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