What's so is you feel uncomfortable and
embarrassed and you believe it's because of the
reasons you've given, but when you stated your
reasons (in your letter) the problem didn't
disappear. This is because you haven't gotten to
the truth yet. Once you tell the truth, of
what's really bothering you, you'll have an
entirely new set of problems.
Experience tells me that you are not in
communication with anyone. You have lapsed into
doing your imitation
of communication with
your husband and daughter. How do we know? We
know because when communication takes
place problems disappear, conversely, when talking takes
place problems persist.
It's most likely you have never been in
communication with anyone and that the moments
of love you've had with your
husband were but unconscious happenings. I say
this because once one knows how to cause
communication to take place the ability stays
with them for life. That is to say, all it takes
is for one partner to intend for communication to
take place and the other joins in the
co-creation, or, they extract themselves from the
conversation/relationship. I.e. "I don't want to
talk about it." or, "Don't ever mention that
again."
You can tell you've been stuck using the
adversarial communication model because of the withholds.
If you'll look back, even before you met your
husband, but certainly on the first date, you
found yourself withholding certain thoughts;
this is one of the primary characteristics of
the adversarial communication model. Most likely
you had not had any experiences of communicating
openly, honestly and spontaneously, (zero
thoughts withheld) in your family; for most it
sounds like a "real good idea: until they come
across a thought they are afraid to communicate.
Withholding the first thought is the beginning
of the commitment to mediocrity in a
relationship. In fact, your breakdown
in communication reveals
that that's where you are now, back then, when
he said something that was a clear indicator of
where he was heading; had you been conscious,
and operating from integrity, you would have
said your truth and he would have realized that
you would not be aligned with him on his path.
When you withheld certain thoughts from your
husband during your first date you compromised
your integrity. It's quite common for couples to
have only a few peak experience of joy during
their engagement and few, if any, thereafter.
Neither of you have learned how to create
and recreate joy at will through a single
sit-down conversation.
What you're looking for is the first time in
your life that you compromised your integrity;
you let something slide. With him, you voiced an objection to moving into
a neighborhood that was not comfortable, and you
didn't make sure he "got" your consideration and
so you still have it. It could even be
that you went along with a huge mortgage, one
you've never been uncomfortable with, because you
know that without his income you'd have to sell
the house; alarm bells rang but you surrendered,
ostensibly as a gesture of teamwork and
partnership, but in truth surrendering
is how you manipulate him into providing for you.
I suspect that you attracted and married someone
who has been leading you in ways that conflict
with your integrity. You both are presently ripe
for bankruptcy; that is to say, your
leadership-communication skills are supporting
him in behaviors that lead to bankruptcy.
That you intend he ignores your feelings
suggests he believes that you'll submissively go
along with it if he declares bankruptcy and
causes others to lose money or, that wimpy you
could be conned into forgiving him for
infidelity? His treatment of
you reveals that he is on the way down; such
arrogance begs to be humbled. Put another way,
you, using your leadership-communication skills,
have been unconsciously intent on having him
crash and burn so as to teach him what you need
to learn.
It could be said that you've been asked to wear
fancy jewelry when in truth you're of the
opinion that such ostentation is inappropriate
in a world in which people are still homeless
and hungry. Possibly you believe that what would
make you happy is a life of sufficiency, one
that supports generosity and community service,
rather than showy accumulation and ostentation.
For some it's uncomfortable to socialize with
people who are unconscious, prattling about
things that don't add to the aliveness of
others. Few conversations at your present social
block-parties make a positive difference in your
community—evidenced by lots of badmouthing and
gossip.
In any case, you've sold out. You've set it up
for him to invalidate your brilliant intuition,
your feedback, after which you made him wrong.
This is abusive of you. It doesn't speak well of
how you've been using your equally powerful
leadership-communication skills; you've been
leading him in a way that supports him in
verbally abusing you, speaking condescendingly
to you, ignoring your considerations. He's
supposed to know that your happiness is of
paramount importance. Men who commit themselves
to serving their spouse are rewarded ten-fold.
That you are unhappy and nothing you say can
effect a change reveals that you both need
relationship coaching. I recommend that you begin
by doing The
Clearing Process, by yourself, (it's
free), one clearing per day for five days in a
row.