For the last 3 days my partner has been having his "time out", by this I mean he has gone to sleeping in the spare room and is being Impasse with me, when I suggest we talk he digs in and won't reply. I have just tried to have a discussion with him, he has now taken his time out, out of the house and to the shops, didn't even ask if I wanted to come along.
I am getting to the stage now where dissolution seems the only option as he will not sit down and discuss what is happening in our relationship.
When we do talk he does the whole kitchen sink, counterpunching and digging in and I am getting nowhere quickly. We do love each other tremendously, he has just been put onto prozac for his depression and I am trying to cope with his mood swings just as he did mine, but I don't recall mine ever being this bad. We have the Christmas season coming up and once again I will be spending it with my family whilst he goes to his own, he will not even consider compromise. I am not being passive-aggressive, I am looking at this from both our points of view.
I really need some words of wisdom here please, since losing my husband 9 years ago I thought I would be single forever, I have been with my partner for 4 1/2 years and in that time we have never spent a holiday celebration together, I don't want to give up on him as he is a wonderful loving man & I love him dearly. I am not afraid of being alone again, so that is not the reason I am staying with him, I just need to see some compromise on his side, as I'm the only one who seems to be giving anything to "Us" at the moment.
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