Tracii, VERY well written post and I agree with you 110%! Even if you take the CDing out of it, I see a lot of guys bow down to their wives for no apparent reason other than she is a control freak of some sort. I have never had a relationship like that and it baffles me how so many can accept that and live with it. I would go nuts. Where is it written that you surrender all your feelings, wants and needs?