Men will test your boundaries, and they do so to see what caliber of woman you are. They want to see if you are the type who loves and respects yourself, or if you're the type to allow them to do whatever they want to you because you value their attention over your self-respect. When they push a boundary, you must be willing and able to correct them instead of letting it go. If you let them get away with it, they will do it again, and again. Then, by the time you finally get fed up and correct them, they've already lost respect for you, and you've likely lost respect for them as well.

We would like to believe that we could change any man that we desire, but many of us have found out the hard way that we just can’t do it. First of all, men don’t like when someone tries to change them, and neither do women. To quote one of my favorite authors, Shahrazad Ali, “Women expect a man to accept them as they are, but they try to change everything about him.” I guess we made the mistake of trusting in our build-a-man abilities too much, but later found out how difficult it is to make or remake a man.

So, let’s get this straight: we have the “We’re just talking” situation, the “We’re just friends but we sleep together” situation, then the “We used to be together, but now we’re on a break” situation, and finally we have the “We’re technically not together, but we aren’t going to date other people either” situation.

Who's really the head of the household?