He won't have it...

Big row, he talked about how negative and depressed I am all the time, and can't I see he doesn't have anything to offer this/me?

All this because he was fretful this morning. And all that because I told him I needed a month off last night and he really doesn't want me to do it.

My emotional journeys must be by myself.

I wonder if we should part for a while. If that's the natural movement, I don't need to hasten it, he's a good man, a dear good friend and partner. Supportive in many very practical ways, ways I don't understand when he talks about it because it's all money, but I do appreciate cos I get myself into trouble about cash all the time.

I appreciate it, but I can't just deny my unhappiness, and he really wants me to. Or if not deny it, at least be quiet about it. He says he's emotionally exhausted, and has nothing to offer me, he says he's taken 9 days off this year and can't I see he's too tired? OK, so if he's too tired to talk about it now and he'll be absolutely shattered when he's back at work, when will there be time?

I have agreed not to take a month off, and he's fine now.

I fear this becoming the Nora and Torvald show.