Dear Amy: I wonder if my expectations are too high, or if my wife is controlling me? I do not feel welcome in my own house. Every week my wife asks me for my schedule (I am retired) for the coming ...
As a child nothing I did was good enough. And as a teen, my parents started controlling me. They chose who I could be friends with. Monitored my phone. And even escorted me when I wanted to go out.It ...
Sometimes people try to assert power over others and control situations. They may do this out of anxiety because they worry that things will go wrong if they do not maintain control. In other cases, ...
Have you ever said this to your partner? Or had your partner say it—or one of its oh-so-many variants, listed below—to you? “You’re always trying to control me!” “Are you ever going to stop ...