
Originally Posted by
40plusnewbie
I'm no prince charming, I have my faults, but I own up to them and work towards changing them.
My wife seems to think she is perfect and any time she does anything wrong she blames me. i.e. I say something that 'makes her mad' (can be some stupid mundane thing) and she goes off for 1/2 hour yelling about everything under the sun and then tells me it was my fault because I made her mad. Se doesn't seem to grasp the concept that we are all responsible for our own behavior, and the only time an adult should be screaming is like if they are being chased by a rapist or something.....
Due to the religion I was raised under I put off the notion of getting divorced, we have been together 7 yrs and married 5, my first and only exclusive relationship. Hell, I'll tell you, it sure is a blow back to see how people change after they get married.
Counseling isn't an option b/c, like I said, she see's anything she does 'wrong' as coming from something I did wrong, regardless of how small. Arguments are getting worse, particularly since I basically stopped participating in them, remaining calm and trying to calmly and quietly talk her down.
Since I have become recently reinvigorated with the desire to work out and build my body, now that I am done with PT eating clean, working out regularly, and telling my wife well in advance I am going on a steroid cycle, things she was all initially cool with. Well tonight she tells me she is throwing away all my steroids/gear making supplies, etc "because they mess up my head" (excuse, i have done one anavar cycle more than a yr ago and she didn't even know).
I have had so many crisis and set backs over the past year, did my best to fight through them, endured my marital difficulties and tried to help my wife improve, and I finally get a positive mindset on eating clean, working my body, and doing a cycle to make myself feel good... and she tells me she is going to step on it.
My wife wants a 'trial separation'. I explained this will not work until she gains insight into her own acting out, takes responsibility for her own actions (and without saying it, basically stops acting like the worlds most selfish bitch, at least to me).
I'm now deciding whether or not I am going to stay local in MA, which I likely will at least until 10/1 when I will pick up 3 weeks vacation pay, and then stay on with the co I have been with for 15 yrs, or make a completely impulsive move to either Las Vegas (I used to be a semi-pro poker player online and the biggest and most fish are in Las Vegas) or to Miami Beach, simply because I LOVE it there.
So I went from feeling like a 10 last night to feeling like a zero tonight after the convo with my wife. I know this won't change. I guess I picked the wrong woman, likely because I had no experience in long term relationships.
I'm at a crossroads and not sure what will happen, what I will do. My motivation is shit today. I don't know if I will be able to break free from the psychological prob's until I break free from my wife, unfortunately all my money is tied up so I am stuck living with her for the next cpl of months.
I'm gonna do my brew at a hotel this weekend, hopefully she doesn't destroy all my shit before then....
Sometimes life sucks...and not in a good way........