I'm currently being punished for wanting to stand up for my rights. My wife has been giving me the silent treatment because in one of the few remaining places in Alabama that still requires masks, this is where she chooses to buy glasses. We've also had a few arguments about policy and the effectiveness of the tyranny which really changed my view of her when she decided to marginalize me because I don't work in health care like she does and so I don't see the people she sees struggling to breathe (on a vent without any other treatments besides the Rem, which she also thinks works "when given to the right patients who will respond to it" {very similar to "it would have been worse if they were unvaxxed"}). She must discount that I worked through 2020 as a deputy sheriff, INSIDE the county jail no less, and that we both caught it and recovered together.

She knew my position going in and that I had in fact been willing previously to "wear the disguise" (of a believer) to get basic services, but this time she didn't ask, and so when the little girl behind the counter asked me to wait in the car, I didn't argue or make a scene, I just left. She never sent me a text to ask me to come back in with a mask from the car to help her pick the frames she wanted and which I actually expected her to do after getting the exam.

She just came back to the car pissed at me because I wouldn't be bullied into doing something I don't want to do. It's been five days now and even though we are talking again, I haven't heard an "I love you" nor touched except for when I have ambushed her with a hug since. She just lost a close family member (also a healthcare worker and Triple jabbed) to "covid" (who was stubborn enough to just stay at home and suffer even though she was in her early 70s, and never took our or her sister's advice to contact the Frontline doctors to get an at home treatment of Hyd or Ivr). When she was admitted to the hospital, my wife actually said that it would have been worse if she was unvaxxed... And blew up at me then for asking whether she had been vaxxed. (This was "The most insulting thing you've ever said to me or my family". Later that night she sadly died. Overwhelmed by bloodclots...

So now I'm here and pretty despondent. I don't have anyone to actually lean on IRL so I'm venting here and am just wondering what is happening in the world today...My wife is no modern left leaning liberal. She's such a study of history, one of her favorite past times is binge watching documentaries about Hitler and the Nazis. Yet here is a lady that is asking me to drop my principles and just comply. (I'm also a military retiree so this is definitely not natural.)

What is happening to people? And sure, I'll take any advice on my situation...