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usband: How can you tell me now that you’ve been feeling alone and unhappy for the past decade? I’m shocked!
Wife: I tried so many times to tell you about things that made me unhappy but you had an answer for everything. You’ve always defended and explained yourself instead of trying to understand and respond to me. So eventually I just stopped talking.
Husband: What are you talking about? We disagreed sometimes — so what? A person has a right to give his own viewpoint doesn’t he?
Wife: See? You’re doing it right now. You’re not interested in understanding what I’m trying to tell you. You want to prove that people can disagree. You always want to prove that what I’m saying is wrong that what I think is unimportant.