Imagine that you are committed to avoiding the topic of an inconvenient scandal. You are so committed, in fact, that you are willing to go to war to change the subject.
You are willing to spend trillions of dollars and wreck the world’s economy, to bomb thousands of innocent people out of existence, even to destroy an entire civilization. Just so that people will talk about something else for a change.
Then your wife, of all people, gets people talking about the scandal again. After all of your hard work.
Wouldn’t you find that frustrating?