Do I have the right to be mad at my wife?

This relationship is the most important relationship you will ever have. Dont let anything come between it. Forgive her. Just let it go Shes your wife and you love her. I dont know how long you have been married but its just the begging Im guessing. The years to come are what you need to focus on. So In order to better your relationship sit down and have a very nice talk about how you felt in that situation. Let her know that it didnt work for you therefore it dose not work for the both of you. Compromise plays such a big role in a marriage. work on the communication. the way you present your feeling is very important. a good way of letting her know you are not trying to ignore her feelings is by stating so. "I know your having fun. I had fun too but Im ready to go. I dont want to step on your good time but I want to go home with you hun" ...so let her know there a little problem in the communication department and set a time to talk about it. make decisions to compromise. This is almost never the falt of just one person. usually both could use some fixin. make that clear as well so she doesnt feel attacked. not the time to bring up everything in the past. JUST focus on the future. thats all thats left anyway... enjoy.

I agree with you and yes, I would be mad at my wife too (on a scale of 10, I would be a 4 1/2). You were being responsible. It was 9 PM and you had your 5 year old with you, so you wanted to get her home before it was too late. Under regular circumstances, dancing with the other guy would be fine since it was a party and you were leaving together. But in THIS case, she appears to be blowing you off after a disagreement. When you say compromise, I would have expected her to say, "I'm not ready to leave yet. Let's stay another hour ok?". You appear to be a reasonable guy...maybe that would have been acceptable to you. Your wife was being selfish and inconsiderate of both you and your daughter.

The other poster was right. It's time to have a serious talk with your wife.

Your wife is the typical selve serving, selective memoried, using and coniving wench and she had been caught doing something at least in very poor taste and which showed poor judgment. That plain enough? Dude, she does not care what you think save for when she needs to you by into what she wants or wants to do. She has no problem in acting poorly or showing you no respect, because she does not respect you. I would put nothing past this women, for now that you two have a kid together, she feels safe. She like most women in this country figure that no matter how good you are and no matter how bad she is, she will still win unless you really have kept meticulous notes about all that she does and when she does it. The courts are biased in favor of women and if the woman has kids, she can not only rake you over the coals and take your stuff, she can then use the kid against you too. Just how it is bud. Sorry to be such a pisser, but it is just this simple.

I think the issue goes beyond the day of the wedding. I think your wife is fairly immature and perhaps you might be a little stick in the mud. If your wife isn't lacking in anything she would not act like a person who never goes out. I don't know your relationship, but I have a feeling that you two do not do enough together as a couple (without your child being there). Sometimes I feel like that with my husband, finally he goes out with me somewhere, acts somewhat distant when we go out and ready to leave at the first opportunity. I don't want to leave, I am having a good time, so I START TO RESENT HIM. My husband use to be a lot more fun before the marriage and needs to learn to relax and have a good time. He is too serious. His comfortable place is at home all the time. Sometimes that just gets old and the relationships gets stale!

It would have been convenient if she'd just heard the cue and said her goodbyes.

Maybe she'd been dreaming of dancing with that fellow since she was 11 years old. And it was nothing but her, caught in her memories of childhood make believes. Maybe it was nothing and always nothing and no one remembers because most folks don't remember a darn thing from a wedding. The evening sure took an odd twist.

If it was really about getting your child home and in bed because that's a priority.... then it seems you would have done so. But you didn't. In fact, you decided to take a walk, alone. So it wasn't about the kid. Whatever it was about, your wife likely knows more about it than we do. Ask her about it.

I'm rather speechless...

Being in a marriage is like a two people team, and you two have to work together to make things work.

You have every right to be mad, if she told you "if you want to leave, leave i'm staying"

That's not right. Then the fact she was dancing with another man.

You two should have a serious talk.

Best of luck.

No your not wrong for being mad at her because you made your compromise but shes not making and effort to meet you half way, your also dealing with a dangerous weapon that she had that night ALCHOL!! strengthen your marriage by having better communication maybe decide on a departure time in advance, just communicate as much as possible so theres no suprises.