cyrnel

I think many of us have experience with that one. It can be amazingly powerful. The fact every friend I've spoken to about this has mentioned at least one similar incident makes me wonder how many women go through this without mentioning it to their SO.

Q) "What's bothering you?"
...tick tock...
Q) "Honey?"
...tick tock...
Q) "If you don't want to talk abou"
A) "NOTHING! Everything's fine!"

My only way to deal with it is laugh at the utter absurdity. Repeatedly. Her humor and rational side win out eventually.

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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195