Geeze . . . looks like they changed the board format again. I'm sure glad they put those boxes on the left. They really tell me what I want to know.
Anywho... I think that you may be right about the "or what" scenario. I guess we'll see. It may happen as soon as this weekend.
This morning she got snippy with me about not getting DD5 dressed and ready to leave for her Chinese lessons. The whole tone was like she was addressing a child.
"I don't deserve to be treated this way. I am an adult." "Well," she said, "if you stopped acting like a teenager, maybe I'd treat you as an adult." I stopped. I looked at her. Pause. Calmly said, "Don't try to justify your poor treatment of me as being my fault. I won't be treated this way." And I let it go, and began getting DD5 ready.
Did it stop her? No. Did I expect it to stop her? No. But, as she continued to focus on MY behavior, I just tuned her out, and did not react. She eventually (pretty quickly, actually) ran out of steam.
By the time I saw her again after she and DD5 left, she was mellow.
On a related note, I viewed that youtube video that Martelo linked to on the Superior Man thread. It was kind of hokey, but what I got out of it was that the most "powerful" man was the one who said nothing. He just stared right into the woman. He also invaded her space.
Then, I looked at the "related" Michael Jascz footage. He related a story about a man and a woman in a bedroom. The man was NOT ready to sleep. The woman was. She said, "I'm so tired, I just want to go to sleep." The man looked at her, paused, and, very calmly said, "Well, get ready."
That's the kind of confidence and power I want to be able to have.
