Why is my wife so sensitive about my correcting her in public?

Women. If men were supposed to understand them, we'd have a clitoris instead of a penis.

BTW. Brilliant post. You're willing to go the extra mile to antagonize.

Your cavalier attitude and swarthy opinion brings forth the question as to why you married your wife in the first place. If helping her was your main concern an educated individual would have reached the logical and rational reasoning that public criticism is not the best course of action. So, unless you are truly lacking in insight or simply bored and needing some sort of entertainment this question rings as false as the notion that a woman would marry you in the fist place. My suggestion would be that you cure your boredom with another more interesting form of questioning, or prodding, to the masses at large. Sexist and otherwise cavalier comments are for the lowly and unrefined.

Well, as you can see, American women are sensitive. And someone them have a mean streak deeply hidden within their inner most beings. You are baiting the lion. First, it's rude. It's rude to correct a grown woman, especially one you've promise to have and to hold until death do you part. Your wife is not your child, she is your partner. It is disrespectful for you to correct her in public.

I encourage you to voice your dissatisfaction with her use of grammar in private or at home. But should you continue to do it in public, and humiliate her, you will soon be single. your wife needs to feel secure when she's with you and part of that means that no matter what you'll always be on her side, protecting her from whatever the two of you might face either together or individually. This means, you cannot be the threat she has to face on a daily basis. She will have no one to turn to for support and she will either leave you or cheat on you with someone who does make her feel safe.

First, your post isn't perfect. You made quite a few mistakes, mostly awkward sentences as a result of trying to sound intellectual. Seriously, do you really think "...I do not feel she has any right to be indignant for my pointing out of it" is correct?

Second, she may not speak correctly all the time, but she's still a thousand times better than you. She's an American.

Wow, you sound absolutely controlling. And that makes you imperfect. Your wife (WIFE!) is also imperfect. Let her be who she is--your wife--the person you married and vowed to respect and cherish. It can be very, very humiliating being corrected in front of other people, the way you go on and on and on in this diatribe tells me there are other issues in your marriage, not just her "misuse of language". What are you really unhappy about? Maybe it's time to start some couples therapy--or just you for starts. New year, new you.

Everything sounds good.....except that your doing it in public.

If you just wanted to help her be a better person, you would do it in private. Take her to the side and say something.

Yet, you like to tear her down in public. Show everyone that your the smart man and she is the dumb woman. It sure makes you feel good.

And as far as words go....there is more then one way to say some words in casual conversation.

And don't even start the dumb 'ain't' thing, again. Ain't IS a word, it's in the Webster's Dictionary. Sure some stuck up English Teachers don't like the word...but that is too bad for them.

Perhaps your current dilemma is the result of your own idiotic decision to enter into an eternal commitment with somebody whom you do not regard with the same degree of intelligence that you regard yourself. You obviously hold yourself in such high esteem that you may find it virtually impossible to find anyone who can compare with your own eloquence and clever usage of the English language. Indeed, it is my inherent observation that perhaps your wife chooses to speak in slang for the purpose of speaking in a manner that is convenient, widely understood and more socially acceptable and this choice of speaking is not a reflection of her intelligence, but merely a personal preference, as it is quite exhausting to constantly show off ones vocabulary just for the sake of appearing astonishingly intelligent at all times.

Only a jerk would embarrass his wife in public. Who cares if she mispronounces a word like "nuclear?" Good grief, our own president cant say it. To humiliate her in public is wrong. If it is such a big deal, you should have noticed it before you were married. Then you could have married someone more intelligent. Too bad your wife didn't wait until she found someone more intelligent.

Does she not realize that you are correcting her out of love?

Poor Jack the trials you must endure for her.

Don't give up on her just yet though her mind is still able to be molded into something you will not be ashamed to show off in public

Until then remind her that women are to be seen and not heard

Since only a horses' *** would correct his wife in public and make her look like an idiot, let alone have such ignorant thoughts on women, you can consider yourself one. What rock did you crawl out from, hairy chested, prehistoric man?

There is a time and place. If you would like to help her improve, do so - lovingly - in a private place. Think about how you would feel if she pointed out your shortcomings to other people. It's called CONSTRUCTIVE criticism. You may deem yourself intelligent but you don't seem to possess much common sense.. Book smart will not do much for you in the social realm.