Okay, so tomorrow is our anniversary - Karl and I will have made it to our SIX year mark!

This last year has been a little rough, but we've made it through.

So answer me, WHY is he acting a little strange tonight??

I ask him what's wrong and he just says nothing, but he's distant.  We had JUST texted each other on the phone a few hours ago while he was trying to make it home. (Karl works in VA sometimes, DC, sometimes and at home 2 days a week - subject to change in Oct.) 

Today, I'm sure he's had a grueling day and just wanted to come home.  We didn't have ANY karate classes tonight, so I fixed dinner and got the kids homework checked & started running everyone through the shower.  Well when he had come home, I was on Facebook.  (okay, YES, I'm an addict) 

Understandably, he was probably looking like - dang - WTF!?!?  There she goes with all that computer stuff again!!  But it really wasn't like that!  I was actually playing a GAME and wasn't chatting or talking to other men.  So that should be better, right?  But, no.  I'm guess the move that I made wrong here was preferring to play my game instead of catering to him.  Maybe I should've thought that through. 

Well now, he's in the bed, and I guess I should be, but I don't want to hear what he's going to say.  So I sat in the living room for a while and just looked at the blank TV screen.  Just thinking about all the stuff I had to do at work tomorrow.  So he comes out and asks me whats wrong and honestly I didn't have anything on my mind but that, so I say nothing.  And he says, yeah ok.  As if he doesn't believe me!

We walk on eggshells so much with each other that it's hard to know what is acceptable and what is not.  What we should say and what we should just keep to ourselves.  It's crazy!  And it's driving ME crazy! 

So what I'm about to do is go in the room, get in the bed and go to sleep.  Just acting like it never even happened.  It will be better in the morning.  Hopefully.

Kris, if there's only one thing I've learned in my 12 years of marriage, it's that communication is critical - even when it means talking about unpleasant things. If you and Karl don't open the lines of communication, you're both going to be bitter and angry, and everything will fall apart. If you two can't talk to each other now, when it's most critical, what will you do when the stakes get even higher? And they will, you know; the longer you two don't talk, the higher the stakes get...

Trust your intuition, Kris. It does not lie, and it will never lead you wrong...

Thanks Holly! I needed that!

Hey Gorgeous. Just wanted to pop by and see how you're doing, and wish you a great day and a great weekend. I hope you're doing okay, my friend; you're in my thoughts...