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My Problem With Her Anger Summary

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Trying To Be Understood In the article “My Problem With Her Anger,” Eric Bartels fosters how his marital life has slowly and slowly become worse. In the beginning of the article, Bartels claims that he wants to be understood by his wife for what he has given up for her and what he does for her (58). Through Bartels’s claim, he speculates that his wife does not appreciate him or recognize what he does (58). Bartels reveals that what he does for his wife is never fully appreciated. He expresses the little credit he got for cleaning out and organizing the armoire, a project which took a day for him to do, and led to an argument about where the contents should go (58). Under his own consent, Bartels also stresses how he made dinner for his wife

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