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More thoughts on being short or snippy with your wife. The suggestion that familiarity breeds contempt seems to have been around for almost 2,000 years. Why is this so? Some suggest it’s because we’ve seen all a person’s bad qualities and have thus lost respect for them. But this is certainly not how I feel about my wife.
When Lori and I discussed this on the way to church the other day, we felt it was more about thinking your spouse will let you get away with it. Do such a thing to friends very often, and they will stop wanting to be around you. But your spouse is committed, and won’t ditch you over snippy.
Being rude to my wife because I know she’ll put up with it is horrible! I don’t want to be that person.
What about you?
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Definitely not! I can see the reasoning but I definitely don’t want to be like that. Yet, I know that some days I surprise myself unpleasantly with how I respond and need to apologize for it.
I wonder if we bottle it up all day when someone at work pushes our buttons, when a car cuts us off in traffic and makes us catch the light red, when we hear the news about how politicians are at it again and people are buying it so that when we get home it all comes back up on those we love. I don’t know but it’s a thought, if an unpleasant one.