C820 Task 2.docx C820 Task 2 “Move,†said the passive aggressive voice behind me, as she shoved a pile of dirty dishes past me into the sink, where I had already been laboring for the last 10 minutes. My face went
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C820 Task 2.docx C820 Task 2 “Move,†said the passive aggressive voice behind me, as she shoved a pile of dirty dishes past me into the sink, where I had already been laboring for the last 10 minutes. My face went hot and my stomach churned and cramped suddenly as I felt the anger I had already been feeling boil over into uncontrollable rage. I yelled, screamed, and swore in ways that I had never done in my marriage before. It had started out as a simple conversation about finances. My wife and I had come into an unexpected tax return windfall, and I was explaining to her over dinner exactly how much money we were expecting to receive. I had just begun to unfold part C of my brilliant 47-point plan to save and invest this newly found money, equitably divided between our “rainy day†fund and our “buy a house someday†fund, when my wife said, “Now well be able to buy that couch weve been needing.†I immediately felt a hot prick of anger. I knew that there would be some pushback from her, I knew that she would want to spend the windfall, but I knew that the couch cost almost as much as the entire amount we were due to receive. This meant that she had not only instantaneously decided she wanted to spend her half of the windfall, but that she had decided to help herself to my half as well. I was in shock! The audacity of it all! We didnt “need†a new couch, I thought to myself, looking at the tattered and stained couch in the living room. I began explaining this to my wife, de. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . .
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