My husband and I are both academics. We've been married for 3 years, and been together for 6. He is a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist and I am a member of the Italian Communist Left. He has recently expressed displeasure that I've never seriously engaged with his work. Now, I've read a bit of the MLM Classics, but my husband's work is more in what I'm told is called the "Principally Maoist" tradition. Unfortunately, everything he's shown me has just seems completely insane.

He will throw out terms like "Universal Applicability of Protracted People's War" but when I ask him to explain what this means or give me examples he just starts giving me more inscrutable jargon that makes no sense. On top of that, he will repeatedly say Spanish phrases or terms that he uses (and pronounces) incorrectly (I am a native speaker) or nonsensically. He claims to understand the language (he doesn't) and tells me that the collected works of the PCP can only be understood "in the original Spanish" but he clearly can't read the language and when I've tried to read the original texts they make even less sense.

On top of this, his obsession with Gonzalo himself has reached the point of creepiness. At one point he literally told me that all other work either agrees with Gonzalo so is redundant, or disagrees with Gonzalo and is wrong. He keeps a framed picture of Gonzalo on the nightstand in our bedroom. In fact, he even changed his phone's background from a picture of me to this same picture of Gonzalo. I feel like I am competing with an old Peruvian professor for my husband's attention.

Recently we got in a huge fight because he was trying to demonstrate an example of the Gonzaloite concept of the "jefatura" (whatever that means) by explaining me the concentric construction of a militarized communist party centered around the great leadership and then got angry and stormed out of the house. I haven't seen him since (this was about a day ago) and texted him and haven't heard back.