I know! Shouldn't he be managing me? Seriously, this wasn't in the brochures.

And this post has been kind of cathartic, actually, because (along with many and varied other brilliant conversations lately) it's helping me realize that I'm continuing to react emotionally to a perceived lack of respect. I can intellectually quite easily convince myself that respect exists, so I really do need to move past the slight to my honor and start being constructive.

It's going to help the whole communication thing, I feel, if I'm not on some kind of emotional vendetta that has me calling communication 'manipulation'. Sign of the mental state when I use words like that.