Mainly asking for advise on how to deal with sulking partner - as background we don't live together, he works for himself in a fairly stressful job. I will start this by saying I know this is minor in the great scheme of things going on!!!
But there's two instances this week that are poignant and bugging me where I'm questioning where my behaviour has gone so wrong to deserve stints if silent treatment and sulking for hours and hours on end.
The first - Saturday night, we'd had a lovely day out, had some drinks in a nice bar and headed out to a restaurant (faaaairly tipsy!). Nearing the end of the meal cross words were spoken - talking about politics! - and it cumulated in him storming out the restaurant and disappearing into the night. Long story short, I ended up calling him over and over, begging him to come stay at mine. When he eventually answered and turned up I ended up apologising and making it up to him even though we were both in the wrong and it was him who walked out not me...?
The second was yesterday, he'd had a meeting and I rang to ask how it went in the afternoon. I asked if he wanted to swing by mine as the country is v likely to go on lockdown soon. He said no and asked what lockdown meant. Here's where I know it sounds really petty - but he KNOWS what lockdown means, everyone talking about it, he hasn't been living under a rock and I actually explained twice last week in detail what it meant for Italy and Spain ...
Anyway the cumulation of me saying I'm not explaining again what it means has resulted in 24hrs of silence. Texted last night saying are you ready to talk, nope. Texted today and said can we not drag this out. Ignored.
Where am I going wrong? He is adamant that I'm rude and have a 'shitty attitude' but in my mind I'm just a normal person trying the deal with a toddler who sometimes acts like a man...
Any advice on how to avoid this happening in future? Will update on whether he ever replies !!!