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How long do you not speak after a row?

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DraggingItOut · 07/08/2015 18:28

NC for this. Not sure if DH is being a knob, or I'm just over sensitive but whenever we fall out, it seems to really drag on. He was being horrifically grumpy this morning and I brought him up on it. He quite often will try to turn it round if he's in the wrong and say it was me (which he did, and it wasn't!) but it's now 11hrs later and there's still an awful atmosphere and no sign of an apology.
He's shit at saying sorry at the best of times and usually only after I badger him. To make matters worse, I'm heavily pregnant and have been ill the last few days. He's not asked how I am etc all day and we've basically just communicated about DC.
So, I suppose I just want to know, are your DHs as stubborn, and does a fall out last days, or do you kiss and make up quickly?
When it drags out like this it just makes me more resentful.
Background: We used to have explosive (not violent!) rows but have not done that for years. We've been together for 17 years. He's v good round house and looking after DC.

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NappyValleyHippyCrack · 09/08/2015 08:49

Going through it right now. We're on day 3 of barely talking.
This morning he has come downstairs and not acknowledged me at all but given our 2 year old a kiss.
I'm absolutely fucking petrified of the outcome of this. It's been a rocky couple of years since having our daughter and I just don't think we are going to survive.

defineme · 09/08/2015 09:11

No sulking in this house. If we argue, I make dh talk and talk until we resolve it, i think he'd prefer to just leave it sometimes! I am confused by the apology thing, i don't think dh and i domuch we have to apologize for- a quick sorry i forgot or something like that, but we're British so we say sorry all the time! Do you mean saying sorry for sulking or some behaviour the row was about? Can you give examples of something you might sulk about?

TheoriginalLEM · 09/08/2015 09:18

if we have had a big row my dp will go quiet and monosyllabic. i pulled him on this and he said it is because he feels drained and upset. a nights sleep is what he needs. he does not sulk. it would be a deal breaker. we are after all adults

itsonlysubterfuge · 09/08/2015 09:27

Normally until he says sorry, because usually it ends with him treating me like crap and then I say I am done speaking to him because he's being an asshole and then I become silent. In the morning sometimes we speak, but I tell him I am still angry. However, he usually apologizes before the morning.

Quietlifenotonyournelly · 09/08/2015 09:33

My DH can sulk silently after a disagreement but I just carry on as normal and ignore the sulkiness as I think it's a childish thing to do. I love my MIL but I think that it is a learnt behaviour from her as I've heard she can sulk for weeks He probably only does it once or twice in a year so can live with that. Smile

Quietlifenotonyournelly · 09/08/2015 09:36

Just to add, sulking only lasts a short while (overnight usually)but will still give one word answers.

anonymousforever · 09/08/2015 09:45

NappyValley I'm in the same position as you Flowers

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