Was Tacitus talking about my marriage?

This morning I was reading this article by Charles Eisenstein (highly recommended!) and I stumbled across the following quote:

And … sure, I know he (Eisenstein, that is, not Tacitus) is talking about the relationship between the American government and the American people. But I can't help wondering whether these same principles also explain Wife's intense anger and animosity towards me for so many years? The idea would be consistent with this post, at any rate. Maybe there are others like it too, but I'm not going to hunt for them right now.