Manipulation?

I'm pretty good at reading people. I know what responses with bring us closer, what will push us farther apart. I know how to get someone to open up, I know how to make them withdraw from me.

Is that manipulation? Is that wrong? Or is hypersensitivity a good thing, a way to make me feel like I can still connect to people?

I've been feeling very alone and distant.

We had sex last night, and I got into it [for the first time in ages]. But today he's been mean to me. My son has been fussing and I feel like I'm going to 'splode. What do nons do when they feel all rage-y? I'm just trying not to take it out on him again. there's only so much someone can take before they're done. And this rage-y feeling happens too often, and then comes the depression. I hope I feel better later