There was some back and forth and I finally said the "I have to live here, it might be your house but it is not your home". He had a stupid smile on his face and said loudly "THIS is still MY home". I walked away.
Kind of a low blow on your part, don't you think? You might want to think about that, and ask yourself what you were hoping to accomplish. I think at some level (maybe sub-conscious) you wanted to make him angry. And it DID make him angry, and his passive-aggressive response to that anger in turn made you more angry. See what I'm getting at here? If you're honest with yourself, YOU started it. Seems kind of petty to blame him for being a "child" when you were the one that poked the bear with a stick, right? One of the hardest things for an LBS to do is to learn how to take the moral high road in the face of WAS behavior, but it will make you feel good about yourself no matter what happens in your sitch.
