Pup: I've been thinking alot too about something you wrote in one of your posts. "WE TEACH PEOPLE HOW TO TREAT US." Thanks for that.
Yeah, I in turn stole that from someone else, and it really hit me hard in the gut. It's SO true.
In the SHORT term, yeah, you don't really have to "own" someone else's behavior towards you. But over time? In the long run? We kinda get what we, um, "deserve" is the wrong word . . . "enable" perhaps?