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- From: an4835@anon.penet.fi
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- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.034813.16656@fuug.fi>
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:27:00 GMT
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- Pls note that this is not an indictment of my spouse but basically a cry for
- help so that I can deal with this and steer our relationshipto a healthier
- base. Indeed, the fault lies mainly with me that I am and have been somewhat
- meek, timid and overly afraid of displeasing her at any cost. I am thru this
- forum inviting assistance that will help me to be less afraid of being honest.
-
- Brief background: We are both immigrants. I am the wage-earner, my spouse home-
- maker. We have 1 toddler and would like to have another soon. Financially, we
- are ok and in good physical health etc. I was raised in a poor but loving famly
- and my spouse was beaten and yelled at by the parents till she was 20. We are
- 6 years apart, with me now in my early 30's.we both hold graduate degrees
-
- Problem Examples (Too numerous and painful to list them all):
- * Repeated mention of how she dislikes my sister intensely. Sister does NOT
- live with us and in fairness can be annoying at times but we visit her or she
- us less than once a month for 2-3 hours.
- * Unreliable : When we agree that simple tasks such as mailing the bills etc
- are to be done by her, she frequently forgets and then it is either that this
- agreement never existed or else she just says "Sorry" and it repeats again.
- * Arrogant: Despite my repeated outbursts, throwing trash from our moving
- car; Telling neighbours that they can't take fruit from our backyard even
- if we don't need it and is going to rot; Getting _very_ upset when the
- child or myself somehow do not give her freedom to watch her TV programs;
- Refusing to wear a watch or making specific plans about chores by saying
- that she does not wish to live that way; Getting angry with the child for
- doing things that are beyond control, developmentally speaking. etc.
- * Unsupportive: Lack of respect for my schedule, work pressures, etc. as
- well as my normal sexual needs. If I write to my relatives in our native
- country more than once a month, it is considered too frequent and even
- 2% of my pay if I send it to my parents, to help them with living expense
- has to be approved. My objectivity and support - writing to her siblings
- sending them gifts, inviting her friends over etc - is taken for granted
- * Possessive : No babysitters even in her presence, just to give her relief
- I cannot purchase without pre-approval but she can. Listens in on phone
- conversations with my parents overseas and my sister.
- * Casual Lying: V. fluently even if it is really not necessary. Not so much
- to me but to others. Examples include taking restaurant cooked food taken
- to a party as home-made or about a fake illness when someone asks how
- everything is.Many other examples abound.
- * Name calling: Calling me and others whatever that comes to mind and later
- saying "sorry' as a master password to erase all without acknowledging.
- When I go home at lunch, a rare event, to see the child and my spouse,
- sometimes despite agreement, they are away shopping etc. If I say that
- this was not per agreement, I am called "Chauvanistic" and "typical".
-
- CONCLUSION:
- All said and done, I do LOVE my family and will live and die for them.
- Counsellor I talked with was very useless; Friends only cause complications
- Parents recommend that I pray to the Almighty;
- Now I await your thoughts, suggestions and, yes, constructive criticism,
- to deal with this situation. Thanks sooo much, sincerely.
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