He called Rahel and Leah out to the field — away from Laban's tents, away from the household's ears — and spoke plainly. I consider the looks of your father, and, behold, they are not peaceful with me as yesterday and as before it (Genesis 31:5). Targum Pseudo-Jonathan preserves the domestic sharpness of the observation: a husband reading a face that has grown unfriendly.
And then he added the only line that mattered: but the God of my father hath been to my aid.
He did not complain first and pray second. He told the truth about the situation and in the same breath named the hand that had kept him safe inside it. The wives needed both pieces of information: the danger was real, and the protection was real too.
The Maggid teaches: when you bring hard news to the people who love you, bring the help with it. Do not describe the storm without also pointing to the roof over your heads. Jakob did not panic his wives. He prepared them.