[ He is being petulant, and he knows on some level it's the same argument they had thirty years ago when they were still under his goddamned mother's thumbs about her and her shitty boyfriends back then and how she didn't pay enough attention to him. He knows that on some level, but he is in severe, severe denial about that, instead in his head framing it to be all about her.

He's never going to marry her? And he cane convince himself like that? Bullshit. Bullshit, if he needed him of all people to help save his relationship. and what's more - ]

Did he force you to start doing that too? Or did you do that in order to make hm feel less guilty about him sleeping around because he's too much of an idiot to just show he "loves" you in any sane way?

[ ... He hasn't sounded this nasty in years, he recognizes. But all the same. ]