I'm learning to be assertive, which is interesting since normally I will just sit back and shrug and go with the flow just to keep the peace. But this time around I decided that it wasn't going to go like that. So I've been speaking up when something happens that I don't like, or that I think is off, or that I'm not happy about. I've been calling his bluff the way he called mine in the beginning.
It feels really good.
The Captain (formerly known as Doodlepants) has learned that if he expects something of me, he'd best be prepared to play by his own rules, because I'm keeping track. He didn't like that at first, but to his credit he admitted that I was right and he was being a dork. So there is progress.
"The Captain" comes from me jokingly saying "aye-aye, Cap'n" whenever he tries to be butch and make a decision or declaration about something. It's suitably dorky.
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