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What does it mean when your 'loving' spouse is more rude and disrespectful to you than he is to perfect strangers?

I feel like I'm watching the slow deterioration of my marriage and I try to communicate with him but he wont; he shuts down. I think he's lying to me about something again but I can't guess what and when I asked him who he was texting earlier he got super defensive about it.

Then when I asked him why... why he works so hard to hide things if there is nothing to hide he said, "because I like to see you make a fool out of yourself."

How can someone love you if they want to see you look and feel stupid? I feel like I'm at the end of a horribly painful epiphany in which I figure out that you can't love someone that you don't respect.

That this last time, it didn't even hurt. It should hurt, right?
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johnny253 · 70-79, M
Sounds like an exramarital affair
Angelfire21 · 36-40, F
@johnny253 It probably is. He's a liar. He has lots of good qualities, but he lies like he breathes. Sometimes he's even charming while he does it.
@Angelfire21 Those are the qualities of a narcissist. And therapy, not that he would ever go, probably wouldn't do any good. I'm sorry you're having to deal with this. No one should have to.

Good Luck.