My wife thinks I have narssisistic personality disorder (something like that). She believes I got scared and threatened by outside circumstances and I've committed the "death of a thousand cuts". I've basically been mean, and critical, and crushed their spirits. I've sucked all the fun outta the room. She calls it verbal & emotional abuse due to traits I developed in order to survive my own very physically abusive childhood
No cheating, no beating, no gambling, etc. My income cratered 4 days after buying our 3rd house (the ranch we live on) and for the next 11 months I made almost nothing, then I found a crummy job for 14 months at like 60% of my usual pay,and now I've got a better job since Sept. 12, but even here the commissions are 55% of my pay, and they are not rolling yet due to economic issues etc. These things, plus crashing my harley, my baby brother's suicide, all contributed, but basically she thinks I've become an ogre.
I seem to recall a Duval movie, where he was a hardazzed Marine pilot who ruled his family with an iron fist (worse than me). "The Great Santini" I think it is called... I need to see if I can find it. He fixes things by staying in his plane when it crashes... Not an option for me...
That is as best as I can understand it right now.
Stinks to be me.
David