You can never have enough...

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Men, often older men can behave like children for reasons tied to the "male ego", when they are exhibiting this behaviour it is best to treat them as you would a misbehaving child, a mixture of ignoring and chiding responses, you have the upper hand and he is trying to fool himself that you are subordinate and depend on his approval, let him stew for a while and then offer some sort of offering to placate him. ie food that he really likes, books, some form of game, not sure, it depends on the individual.

Remember you were the one always in charge he just needs to feel that he is top dog even though he isn't. Part of the "battle of the sexes".

Also remember as he gets older and is losing his physical prowess and possibly feeling sore from physical decay reasons, he may be finding it hard to see the good things in life and is feeling grumpy. Needs to be nurtured but not spoiled. In other words continuous pain causes some people to fall away from their grown-up personality into a lesser role, their normal personality is distorted by continuous low-level pain.

Giving away deep male secrets here, lol.