If this is just a bad mood from work or whatever and happens rarely its probably nothing to worry about my brother does this somewhere between once a day and once a week just snaps into frustration and doesnt back down then snaps out of it sometimes apologizing sometimes being like its over its done let’s not bring it up
Maybe he was just in a mood? Sometimes my husband and I just get short with each other for no reason.
He sounds so immature.
This start to an argument sounds familiar. An ex was like this but it would escalate beyond this, to abuse. The root cause of his irritability was addiction, depression and mental health challenges. He was looking for a justification to feel irritable, because he already felt that way and it was easier to blame me than himself. Is there anything peripheral going on for your husband? Perhaps work is stressful, or there’s some kind of pressure on him that you mightn’t be aware of? If it’s out of character, it could be because he’s going through something. Hope you folks work it out and he doesn’t get so unnecessarily triggered in future x
@Holly actually he has struggled with addiction in the past… he’s been sober about 5 years. Honestly it’s been so long I’ve forgotten how moody he used to be back then and it does seem recently it’s happening more often. We did just move though, so I honestly thought it was likely just stress from that.
I’m so sorry to hear that. 5 years sober is wonderful. I don’t mean to worry you, but I’m sure you’re aware.. dependencies can return or rear their heads during times of stress, so it might pay to be vigilant and perhaps check in and invite him to speak openly on this. Or it may just be tiredness and generic stress making him snappy, in which case it’s not as big of a deal. I hope it eases and doesn’t become a recurring theme 🙏
I think he was offended and didn’t know how else to back down when you showed him he was wrong so he tried to pick a fight over something else because he was not satisfied with how that ended… my brother is like that then it turns off like a switch after a cigarette or a walk… to be honest we don’t see eye to eye on a lot of things so we aren’t talking right now not that it’s any bearing on what you should do about that behavior with your husband