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Dr. Laura (0:30)
Thanks for listening to my Call of the Day podcast. You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5pm Eastern Time on Sirius XM Triumph 111. Joseph how can I help?
Caller (0:43)
Awesome. I need advice. I'm a 36 year old man, husband of two, married for five years to my wife, entrepreneur. I stay at home a lot and the wife stays at home and watches our babies. They're young, they're under five, newborn and under five. And ever since pregnancy the wife's just been very difficult for me. She is who she is, but she's difficult for me, meaning just critiques everything I do. I don't think she respects me because I just do things with a little carefree attitude. As you know, she's the more stressed out, fearful, let's do it right. And lately, well, not lately, it's been a pattern. And we argue in our arguments over anything really, they escalate to violence. And you know, I was raised not. And you know, recently it was, it was, you know, over breakfast. I was cooking and she wanted me to make them. She didn't want me to burn the pan, make the breakfast a certain way. And I said, leave me alone, I don't cook. Just leave me alone. I want to do this, this is a pride thing. I just want to cook for my babies and you let me be. And she's relentless. She doesn't take no for an answer. She's very strong minded. And yeah, you know, it just escalates in front of the kids. We really have no boundaries. We just let it all out and I'm kind of just telling her no and she's, you know, she spits in my face and I just react and I slap her. And my mom didn't raise me like that. It's not the first time I've done it and I'm, you know, I feel I'm not happy with myself. The thing is I, you know, immediately I'm like, I'm getting divorced. We talk about divorce all the time. And you know, our normal response is when we get Mad. It's all right. The courthouse is right down the street. Be my guest. And the. I'm sorry. And so it's gotten, it's just gotten to the point of the kids see it and oh, the next morning, you know, we'll take a day to cool off but then, or not even a day and then the next morning it's like nothing happened. So I guess I'm the emotional one. She's kind of the more logical one in the relationship and she just moves on and just wants to talk about the things we're doing as opposed to understanding what the hell just happened. And I'm not blaming her, I'm blaming both of us. But I don't, I don't know what to do. I want a family. I. I've always wanted a family. My dad left me and I've always wanted to be better than him but I don't find myself being better than him with what how I handle my wife. So I guess the question I'm asking you think.