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writes:I’ve been married for three years and we have a one year old son. We have problems the same as everyone else but nothing major. My husband (31) and his sister (35) took their mom (60) to New York City for two nights as a birthday present to their mom. Their mom has never really traveled before so she was really excited about going. The night before my husband left for NYC he had to pick up a camera from his friends house and he was gone for two hours, which made me upset because I thought that he would have wanted to be with me before he left instead of his buddy. He promised me that he would call when he got there. He did call but it was about five hours after he got there, and at the end of our phone conversation he said that he would call me that night and he never did. Today is the last day of his trip and he still hasn’t called me back. It’s been two days since I talked to him last. Do I have the right to be mad or am I just overreacting. I may be overreacting because I’m a bit sleep deprived from watching our one year old on my own while he’s away. Reply to this Question
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reader, BrownWolf +, writes (20 July 2010):
 If this is not your husband's normal way of being, then don't sweat it. But let him know how you felt...Calmly.Yelling never fixes a problem, unless you are in the army.
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reader, janniepeg +, writes (20 July 2010):
 You have a right to feel anything. Just don't show it to him. You may be losing sleep waiting for his phone call. He may not have seen his mom for a long time, so he's going to catch with her. He'll be back soon and he probably would talk about his trip and not at all aware that you may be angry with him. You have a choice of making your evening a miserable one by starting an argument not on purpose, or you can just tell him you are so tired taking care of your son and you are so glad he came back. Maybe he might tell you he's sorry for not calling back. Most likely he will forget. He's just a man. A lot of times "I will call you back" only means "I have to stop talking now," whether he needs to go to the bathroom, his mom asked him for help, or he's in the middle of traffic.
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