It appears to me that women need alone time.

 

I was reading recently that when you work until you’re frazzled, and you’re not effective in what you’re doing, you need to rest.  And it isn’t your body that needs the rest, it’s your brain.  If you can rest your brain (say with a 20-minute nap), your body is made to keep going like the Energizer Bunny.

 

Sometimes your wife’s brain needs to chill down -- her brain needs to stop and recharge.

 

So she may need alone time -- not with you, not at the movies, not at the mall, not on the phone, not running errands -- just alone time.  That might mean a one-hour soak in the bathtub -- with the door closed, no access for the children and no access for you, either!

 

My experience tells me that when she has the alone time she needs, that is good for me, too.