Are you expecting your spouse to be a MIND-READER? Here are the signs…

By the time Dave came home from his run, I had been fighting with him in my head for about thirty minutes.  I was so frustrated with him that I decided to “help” him realize the error of his ways with nonverbal communication.  So, I accented every move I made while putting up the curtain rod.  I grunted as I climbed the ladder-rod in hand- as if it weighted one hundred pounds and I was ascending the Eiffel Tower.  You get the picture.

I was honestly ridiculous and toddler-like in my approach.

After about five minutes of this, I looked back at Dave, who had just started to notice my “crazy town show”, and he says the very thing that I had been longing for ALL ALONG…

Hey, Sweetie, let me install hat curtain rod for you.

Instead of handing him the hardware and thanking him, I decide to make an even bigger fool of myself and shouted,

I can’t even LOOK at you right now!

I have honestly never seen Dave so confused in our entire marriage.  To him, that anger and frustration came out of nowhere.  He seriously had just offered to help, and THAT was all I could say?

You see, I could have avoided this whole song and dance…this whole crazy subconscious conversation in my head…not to mention the hurt and confusion I caused my husband if I had stuck to doing this ONE thing…