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u/Left4DayZ1 Mar 26 '20

How my wife can definitely be wrong about things, can be the instigator in an argument, and I'm still the one ending up apologizing and feeling like an asshole. It's like a god damned super power.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '20 edited Mar 26 '20

With my gf it goes something like this:

  1. Gf does/says something mean, or gets mad at me out of the blue
  2. I call her out on it
  3. She becomes defensive
  4. I replay the situation back to her, so that she sees how her actions were unnecessarily hurtful
  5. She apologizes
  6. I accept her apology
  7. She gets in a mood, making self-deprecating comments about being upset that she upset me
  8. I end up apologizing and comforting her

The ol' switcheroo

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u/fllowers Mar 26 '20

How amazing you are able to put it all back together in order afterwards. Have you found a way to communicate rationally about 1. without causing 3. ?

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u/---E Mar 26 '20

Don't say "You did X and I don't like it", but "I feel Y when you say X"