[OLS]

Hard times force your back against a wall where everyone is trying to get a piece of yo,u and to top it all off,
whether she says it or not, the man thinks his wife looks at him as a failure. People in that situation tend to try
to win em where and when they can. It is a weak attempt at regaining self-respect. There are a hundred ways
to exploit that and make it work for you, albeit cruelly so. I agree that short of giving you the psychoanalysis on
it, that you do your best to say, "when you are right you are right", then leave him in silence to ponder his sham
of a self-respect all alone.