Too many questions

Hi, I need some advice on how to respond when my wife repeatedly asks me questions that I don't know the answer to and she can't stand it when I say 'I don't know'. She thinks I'm saying it like a teenager with an attitude. It is entirely possible that I am but I think that it is my frustration at being asked so many questions. I feel like I am being bombarded sometimes. And when I don't know the answer to something...after the fourth for fifth question, I'm sure I'm a little annoyed at that point. The questions are questions like 'do you know what that person is thinking?' 'why is that person doing that?'. Believe me, it is not questions like 'do you know when you will be home?' It's always questions that no person could ever know. And that is what I find annoying. How the heck am I supposed to know what that person is thinking? Only, then I get an other question of the same caliber. I just want to know what suggestions any of you have that can help me. I sure don't want to be upsetting her, and I sure don't want to get multiple questions like those. Thanking you in advance

Hi MHR72, Why haven't you told her all of this? Or have you? I'm suspecting not. By not wanting to upset her and trying to avoid conversation, can't you see that you're exacerbating and perpetuating the situation? You tell me how that would work (in 1,000 words, on my desk by tomorrow morning, LOL).

Well when you put it that way, you're right. I have been trying not to upset her. And it has done nothing but exacerbate the problem. I will do my best to talk with her about it in as supportive a way as possible. I mean she is just asking questions Thanks

Just like to add that with those types of questions, her intention might just be to provoke a conversation and ask you for your opinion. She might not even be looking or any "correct" or logically-sound answers, but just your input on a subject that she might want to make small talk with you about. Still, definitely talk to her about it if it's annoying you.

Yes, or if she does have friends, maybe she senses something deeper might be wrong and is trying to suss you out in the only way she can think of or dares to without upsetting *you*: seeing how willing you are to engage with her versus how preoccupied you are with whatever's going on in your own head?