No One Else...
How do we keep from getting our feelings hurt when someone we love is being difficult? Yes, it's true. My husband can be a bit grumpy when he's tired, hungry, hurting or bored. When any two or more of these things occur at the same time, he can be a real bear. Not the cute, cuddly kind, either. More like big, hairy, sharp-toothed, standing on two hind legs, growling and foaming at the mouth kind. Well, maybe that's a slight exaggeration, but not by much. And why does it seem that his ill feelings end up falling on me like a deluge? Is it because he's angry at me? Did I do something wrong? Or not do something right? 99 times in 100, it has nothing to do with me personally. I just happen to be the one close by. Since he had surgery on a badly broken elbow this week, he's been experiencing several of his bear-like feelings. And, naturally, since I'm the only one here with him (15 year olds hiding out in a bedr...