It began as a child with my criticizing and being annoyed by my own mother. Now I do the same thing to my wife and other women. I constantly judge and criticize them and see nothing but flaws and defects in the weaker sex. I can't connect with women on an emotional level. Is this normal? What can I do to fix it?

It stemmed from my mother not dressing feminine. As Cardinal Siri said in his "Notification Concerning Men’s Dress Worn by Women" (1960):

All children have an instinct for the sense of dignity and decorum of their mother. Analysis of the first inner crisis of children when they awaken to life around them, even before they enter upon adolescence, shows how much the sense of their mother counts. Children are as sensitive as can be on this point. Adults have usually left all that behind them and think no more on it. But we would do well to recall to mind the severe demands that children instinctively make of their own mother, and the deep and even terrible reactions roused in them by observation of their mother’s misbehavior. Many lines of later life are here traced out—and not for good—in these early inner dramas of infancy and childhood.

The child may not know the definition of exposure, frivolity or infidelity, but he possesses an instinctive sixth sense to recognize them when they occur, to suffer from them, and to be bitterly wounded by them in his soul.

Forget about driving women away. That can be a good thing.  You need to worry about you and your wife.  You both should go on a Traditional Catholic Marriage retreat. 

You are right.  Mothers do need to dress,  act and talk maturely and modestly. 

Forget about driving women away. That can be a good thing.

Yes, keeping women beside my wife away could be a good thing if they're temptations to infidelity, but generally driving anyone away would be a sin against charity, wouldn't it?

It began as a child with my criticizing and being annoyed by my own mother. Now I do the same thing to my wife and other women. I constantly judge and criticize them and see nothing but flaws and defects in the weaker sex. I can't connect with women on an emotional level. Is this normal? What can I do to fix it?

Lol...far as I can tell, you are a perfectly adjusted virile man, who perhaps has been on the receiving end of feminist vitriol for some time.

In all seriousness though, you don’t need to connect with women at an emotional level.  You seem to be aware of your imperfection, and guess what?  There are a LOT WORSE imperfections you could be suffering!

Chin up!

You are aware of the imperfection, from a lifetime of habit, and that is the first step in correcting it.  It will take years to develop the contrary virtue of patience.

Your family should appreciate your efforts, and with continual prayer, one day you will be the man you want to be.

I already like you👍

Wow, how'd you know that? Very true!

There are certain symptoms which evince a man is being beaten down by the women in his life, and one of them is a battle fatigue, which starts to show itself with a man second guessing himself, doubting his self-worth, and overestimating the degree of the imperfection in himself.

The mere fact that you are willing to consider  the imperfection within yourself shows good disposition, and a desire to improve (I’m suspecting you are under 40 years-old?), but don’t take that criticism too far, and let them “get you on the back foot” (ie., in retreat):
Feminist women simply recoil at assertive men who refuse to relinquish their leadership and authority, and will lay all the blame at your feet.

Of course, you need to know how to have a certain”savoir faire” in interacting with women (ie., how to have the right approach, and that itself can take a lifetime).  

I already like you👍

Be very careful Sean, he just may be a sede and then you’ll regret your words! 😂

Actually, I have real-world sede friends whom I respect very much.

Mithrandylan would be at the top of that list.

Nice to hear that and yes, I like him too.