>>81916100>as always being in control and being confident and strong and making decisions is very difficultDon't a lot of normal men do just that? "The ick" is just men dropping the ball for a second or making some other infraction in front of the wrong woman. Men will even say not to open up too much or cry before girlfriends or wives because there's no telling if she will take it well or not. I don't think the sex-flipped version of this is acceptable, but you lecture me for something small in comparison.
>Sometimes a girl just wants to lie on your lap like a little girl and get spoiledI could oblige that, but it falls back into clumsily doing what I think she wants, instead of us both wanting things that just happen to align.
>>81916121That makes sense, but I don't know where that stride starts and what asserting myself in a relationship would look like.