I understand this person's feelings because I have been there before and sometimes quite often.
I used to buckle under and then become emotionally awful for years, until I realized that he was at times wrong too, with what he said. I realized that I had to make sure that I was right in the situation and then I became like him and then he didn't know what to say or do. This might not have been the right thing to do, spiritually, but it made me feel better afterward and he started to think and consider what he was saying and the way he was saying it, because he now didn't know what to do.
In his case, his family somewhat did the same thing. There were issues and fights when my husband was growing up between his mom and dad. His mother literally shuts down if you cross her, now. I consider my husband to be excellent compared to her.
Over a few years things have been so much better. He knows how I break inside and respects that better than he ever did,now.
From One Happy Wife