I'd been ill for 10 days (carrying on as normal as I could) and it was getting worse, thought it was probably flu (when I went to Drs the next day turned out to be flu/chest infection), but I'd gone up to bed at 7pm and slept for 5 hours (really not like me) until DH came up at 12 and I woke up.
I was disorientated and couldn't work out why it said 23.58, and said 'Eh? Have you had dinner (usually have it at 9), why didn't you call me' (I was starving and had been dreaming about it) and he straight away started shouting at me that he didn't know whether he should have left me or disturb me, and couldn't do right for doing wrong.
Despite feeling like crap I was pretty upset that he reacted like that and said as much, it went back and forth for a bit, so I got up and went downstairs.
I was in bed for the next two days and all I got was a couple of texts, not even a call, although tbf I did text him making it clear how fucked off I was at him.
I do see what he's saying, completely, I suppose it was only 5 hours and it was at night, but really, this is so out of character for me that it hurts to think he didn't want to see if I was OK. That instead of gently saying he didn't know what to do, that he chose to start shouting full volume. It makes me out to be some kind of harridan that takes him to task for always getting things wrong, and that's just not true at all (IMO anyway, but then it would be wouldn't it?)
He does ratchet things up very quickly if things aren't going his way, after he's cooled down he admits he does it, is defensive, says crap he doesn't mean. I'm no angel, not by a long shot, but I am able to keep it under control and keep my voice down and not rise to the bait I know so well and that bubbles up so quickly.
Everything's fine until something out of the ordinary happens, it could be me starting work and saying things can't stay the same as I won't have the same free time to do my normal housework things and he'd have to do more, bringing something up that's been bothering me for a while, saying we need to cut back because we're skint, anything really that I know he won't like.
Nobody wants to hear things they don't like, but this is extreme, it's anything that's not 'nice' for him. I'm quite shouty myself and was brought up in a volatile household, but the pattern here is just so obvious. I know from experience it's used as a technique to make the other person think twice, but I don't go along with that because some things have to be said (money, DC etc).
There are other bits to it too but it'd be too much for one thread, but I feel as though I can't rely on him to be there, when the chips are down he just seems to grind them down even further, that it must mean he has so little respect for me that he thinks I'm OK to be shouted at like that when I'm in (what felt like) a vulnerable position.
It happened on Tuesday (I think) and I emailed him today to say why I still can't bring myself to not be fucked off about it and be 'normal' with him. Am I sulking? (which I hate) Or is being angry about something different and sulking is about manipulation? Maybe I am being manipulative? Maybe I'm just having a pity party, but the thought of him shouting at that particular time has brought tears to my eyes every day (and I don't cry easily) and I can't seem to shake it off. Maybe because I'm still getting better?
I. Just. Don't. Know.
I'll probably regret posting and get ripped to shreds, but I'm going to have to take the risk because it's left me feeling insecure and questioning things I don't want to question and I can't seem to resolve it on my own.
Any words of advice would be a huge help.
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Finding it difficult to get my head round DH shouting at me when I was ill.
LuciusCornelius · 30/11/2013 03:40
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