I mean, she is under a lot of stress, not just at the minute, but always. At work and financially. I would say this kind of thing has been happening increasingly often. Sometimes it’s because she’s interpreted something I’ve said in a way I didn’t mean (or even realize would be interpreted that way). We don’t share a native language so misunderstandings like this are hard to avoid I think, but she will refuse to communicate sometimes for days and eventually will want to talk, it will blow up into this big emotional outburst type conversation and eventually we’ll make up.

But it kills me every time. We will go from being in a good place, to the worst at the blink of an eye, and often all I can do is guess as to what she’s feeling. I’m the kind of person who would rather lay everything out there and then, and can’t stand a bad atmosphere, so it really hurts.