They can never be understanding when the man is in a stressful situation - instead they always aggravate it by being critical and unpleasant. Can't there ever be a woman in a movie who understands her husband is in a difficult situation and offers a little sympathy, or even a little space to breathe?
shareI'm not a guy but I can sympathize with the point you're making. In the aftermath of the initial night of the break-in, I myself was baffled as to why she was being such a cold bitch. She seemed irritated and cold hearted for no discernable reason, more interested in getting a new couch to her tastes than in sharing the feeling of recovering from trauma with her husband, or trying to be nice to him while he's dealing with having just killed a guy.
Maybe the writers were just trying to show that this was her very poor way of coping with the stress, but if so they should have signalled that more clearly -- instead it seemed like maybe she's always that mean. It didn't drive the story to make her be that way, therefore it's bad writing to have that as her chosen behavior.
She was most definitely suffering from Can't Understand Normal Thinking syndrome.
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