There's a reason men don't talk very much to their wives. It's not that we are the "strong and silent" types, it because it is impossible to have rational conversations with women when they are irrational, and after a time, men just stop trying. Women are completely dominated and controlled by their hormones. Periodically, they lose their rationality and start raving, crying, screaming, talking nonsense, or whatever. None of it has anything to do with anything, it's all hormone driven. I deal with it the way I deal with the rain -- I accept it as inevitable and I try to avoid it as much as possible.