Bond keeps baiting you, and you keep coming back on the defensive. What, for about 8 rounds now? I'm getting dizzy.
Look, it doesn't matter if you're right, wrong or indifferent, or whether you can back up your points with facts. It really doesn't.
You've heard the expression "Perception is reality." It is. It's not fair or right, it flies in the face of facts and reasoning, but if I have learned anything in life, that is true.
No matter what your intent, or the merits of your arguments, you come across as condescending, with an extra thick layer of sarcasm.
So you can go another 10 rounds with Bond, or you can start looking into the behavior.
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Things would usually work out in a way that she would realize I was right in the first place. It got to the point where she would say things along the lines of "when I'm in doubt, you are right" and "minman's always right".
Yikes - she was totally defeated. She had given up. Alarms sounding.
So the challenge for you is how to suppress you urge to prove you are the smartest guy in the room, whether justified or not, nit-picking over minutia, because people, including your W, find it off-putting.
Determine just how badly you need people to acknowledge that you are right. Then, weigh that against how much you'd like them to just be there.
