I'm gonna say it, y'all shoulda known I would chime in eventually but...
This is the first post on ETHD that I have ever taken offensively from my friends.
99% of the time I don't bitch. But I can say there are plenty of times that Maurice completely tunes me out when I'm trying to ask him something important. Maybe you guys should try listening every now and then, like you all just said, instead of tuning her out.
I listen most of the time. I would say I listen as much or more than she does. I ask her often about something I've told her about previously and she doesn't remember it. I do listen though. But when an argument is obviously just an emotional blow up of hormones then I'm out of it. When it goes from a small disagreement about something stupid to everything I've ever done wrong then I'm not listening to it. I don't do that to her and she isn't gonna do it to me. She isn't like that most of the time but it does come around from time to time. I also don't immediatly call my mother afterwards and tell her everything my wife has ever done wrong. I don't think that is fair to make her look bad to my family but that doesn't bother her to do it. My wife sounds kind of like you. 99% of the time everything is great. But the 1% is what I'm venting about. If she can vent to her mother then I can vent to a bunch of guys (and you) that I will never meet and in the grand scheme of my marraige (no offense) yall don't matter. So I mean no offense to you or women in general. I love her to death 99% of the time

. Sorry if I've been offensive (but don't tell

her I've apologized to a woman

)