Jackman, I want you to clarify for me more of how I am going to hard way.
This is the way I see it:
She has views about things. Maybe she doesn't think that going to a club and getting drunk is OKAY, because she "knows" she's not going to do anything stupid. In other words, maybe she thinks something is OKAY which I think is NOT OKAY.
I'm telling her how I feel about it, straight out. I never made it seem like I was being controlling. NEVERY ONCE in our conversation did I even direct attention and reference to HER, such as saying, "I don't want YOU to do this or that.."
I merely told her a VALUE and STANDARD of mine.
Again, I reiterate, I never even insinuated or even suggested WHAT she should do...I simply made a value statement.
She knows that since I hold that value, if she decides to DISRESPECT me by not caring about what I have to say, that I'm going to make the shot here, and she will be immediately dumped, period.
I don't see how "in her mind" she could possibly see me as being "insecure" for statign a value and standard of mine, and simply watching ow she reacts to it.
I'm NOT infatuated with her and I'm not AFRAID of losing her...so there's really no "power" she could possibly have!
And guess what? If she DOES get b*tchy with me in the future? Then I'll be calling her out on it. She tried before to be a b*tch to me. I basically stood up, told her that she's being ridiculous, grabbed my shoes, and told her that if she's going to keep it up, I'll call her tomorrow, when she's ready to start acting mature.
MOST guys in the situation I'm in would do one of two things.
The first type would be a total p*ssy and try to constantly interrogate her about her actions. Each time, though, she'll be losing respect for him, and eventually she'll just dump his sorry ass.
The second guy would just try to CONTAIN his feelings, thinking that it would be wrong to bother her about this. But deep inside, it is stil BOTHERING him. Eventually, it will explode out, and his actions will probably follow those of guy #1, hence leading to the same conclusion.
I'm going to do something totally different. I'm going to let her be a free agent, but explicitly let her know a standard of mine. Unlike both of the prior scenarios, where SHE'S in fact the one in control, I am the one in control here.