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2021-01-20 22:35:09 (UTC)

When will I learn?

When will I learn to just keep my mouth shut. It never goes well if I ever try to actually have an opinion on something. Normally I know when to just shut up....but for the last few years the wife and I have actually been on the same page, politically. It was a total first. And it was she coming over to agree more with what I believe. Shocker? I know, right?
Until the election. Now everything is going back to the way it was. For some reason, this took me by surprise.
Today we were discussing the latest current events. She said her belief over all of the recent events. I then told her mine. Not negating hers, just stating mine. She immediately goes into retelling her believe, and to me, it was in a way to emphasize that my believe was totally wrong and only her belief was totally right. And, like an idiot, I fell for the trap. We kept going back an forth, her reiterating her belief and stressing how mine was wrong.
When this happens, I start to get a little agitated and my volume goes up slightly, just so I can be heard. And then it happens. She starts accusing me of yelling at her. Yet I was not yelling. My volume went up slightly, but was no where near yelling. And she starts accusing me of negating her thoughts.
At that point, I just shut the fuck up. To continue would have just fed into her plan. I know am reminded that my thoughts and opinions are best kept to myself...unless I want to get into an argument that has no real reason for happening.




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