I've always had a very "I might not be right, but that doesn't make you right" attitude in which I don't mind being proved wrong, but will use every resource to make the opposer wrong in the process.
As it stands, I've always had intellectual conversations (I.E. Respectful arguements) with my mother regarding many topics over the years. Over the summer, I announced that I have plans to try and join the U.S. airforce as an engineer. I've also been able to prove my mother wrong more and more in my intellectual arguements with her, and to be frank I think a bit of bitterness has formed.
Within the last couple months, whenever I try and make a proper response, or arguement regarding a topic, I've been getting the "don't talk back" response and if I push for why she won't engage in arguements with me any more, I'm getting the general "you're being disrespectful, if you act like that you'll never get into the army, etc." responses completely avoiding the questions I ask entirely.
So I want to ask, why do you think there has been a sudden change in persona? The only things that have really changed are that I can come up with better responses and she has gone back to college.
Personally my ego says that its because I'm getting smart enough to prove myself right more and more, and my mother is intimidated somehow. Another part of me for some reason thinks she's trying to convince me to not go into the military, but at the same time I don't see these as being completely valid points for the sudden change, so I wanted feedback from the escapist community regarding this matter.
As it stands, I've always had intellectual conversations (I.E. Respectful arguements) with my mother regarding many topics over the years. Over the summer, I announced that I have plans to try and join the U.S. airforce as an engineer. I've also been able to prove my mother wrong more and more in my intellectual arguements with her, and to be frank I think a bit of bitterness has formed.
Within the last couple months, whenever I try and make a proper response, or arguement regarding a topic, I've been getting the "don't talk back" response and if I push for why she won't engage in arguements with me any more, I'm getting the general "you're being disrespectful, if you act like that you'll never get into the army, etc." responses completely avoiding the questions I ask entirely.
So I want to ask, why do you think there has been a sudden change in persona? The only things that have really changed are that I can come up with better responses and she has gone back to college.
Personally my ego says that its because I'm getting smart enough to prove myself right more and more, and my mother is intimidated somehow. Another part of me for some reason thinks she's trying to convince me to not go into the military, but at the same time I don't see these as being completely valid points for the sudden change, so I wanted feedback from the escapist community regarding this matter.