For dads, is it true that all men can't pick up implied messages from their wives? My hubby and I argue about this a lot. I'm not used to bluntly pointing out his mistakes and he doesn't like it when I get mad and not tell him the reason/s why.. I get frustrated when he tells me men can't catch understatements

I think men understand what is being told and they try to decode the implied messages only until they are wooing a girl. Once they are married they do not invest their energy in coding and decoding. If you want something from them, they have to be told, no matter, how shy, embarrassed, bad, low you feel or if even if you want to turn something romantic they will hardly get the cues unless it is about sex. So, I guess, you too also do not waste your energy and straightaway tell him what you want him to do or whatever.