I would agree that passive aggressive cold-shouldering probably does constitute a sin
I'm not at all sure that that "confess" advice wasn't written by Screwtape, who has a keen insight into the hellishness of passive-aggressive cold-shouldering. Think how quickly the husband is likely to fall away from Christian charity if he's living with someone who every five minutes bursts out with "Oh darling, I have to confess to evil thoughts about you because of the way you never turn the lights out before you go to bed, even though if I've asked you once I've asked you a thousand times, and it's so bad for the environment and it's not as if you earn so much that we can afford to just burn money, not like the Smiths, but even so, it was very wrong of me to think that perhaps a more thoughtful husband wouldn't do that sort of thing. Would you put down hat newspaper and chastise me? You know, you never listen to a word I - oops! That was an other evil thought!" And so on, ad nauseam.
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I'm not at all sure that that "confess" advice wasn't written by Screwtape, who has a keen insight into the hellishness of passive-aggressive cold-shouldering. Think how quickly the husband is likely to fall away from Christian charity if he's living with someone who every five minutes bursts out with "Oh darling, I have to confess to evil thoughts about you because of the way you never turn the lights out before you go to bed, even though if I've asked you once I've asked you a thousand times, and it's so bad for the environment and it's not as if you earn so much that we can afford to just burn money, not like the Smiths, but even so, it was very wrong of me to think that perhaps a more thoughtful husband wouldn't do that sort of thing. Would you put down hat newspaper and chastise me? You know, you never listen to a word I - oops! That was an other evil thought!" And so on, ad nauseam.