Advice from the old lady:
For context,
@Colossus married a top flight girl several years back. My guess is that he’s perhaps a father by now. Like Uncle Atom Smasher he faded from SS after positing many nuggets of wisdom, and is (by last report) happily married.
The message is this:
Respect Yourself.
You are not respecting yourself if you allow others to disrespect you, and that includes women.
I also agree strongly with
@stringpuller in this thread. In a LTR there are going to be conflicts that arise naturally from differences of opinion about things and that is to be expected. You may also have upset to deal with at times and maybe exchanges between one another that are less than kind. The main thing there is to keep the big picture in mind. If the man is leading the relationship and the woman is deferring to him more often than not this is how you get through the occasional bumps in the road.