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[quote=Anonymous]So, my husband is the controlling one in our relationship.  I’m sure that it’s more often women than men, but men can be controlling too.  He has been the main breadwinner most years, but I have always been the primary caretaker of the kids.  What it looked like in our house was him just walking through the door and stopping whatever the kids were playing, telling them to do something more constructive.  
Or I would travel for work once a year and he would take vacation to watch the kids.  While I was gone he would come up with these routines and tell me that I needed to be doing them every day from now on.

Anyway, what worked best for me was to go along with it most of the time, but to [b]also point out that it’s pretty nice of me to do that.  
[/b].  Like, I will make the thing you want for dinner, but that’s pretty nice of me, and you should say thank you.

I also told him that I could see his point when he had a point.  And usually people have some merit to what they are saying.

Eventually, he started reciprocating.  He told me when he could see my point.  He is less rigid with the kids now, and more likely to talk to them than demand of them.  He is super appreciative of me doing a lot of th things he wants (like getting the kids up for these 7am runs).  
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