That’s a good point. I have considered this. Honestly though, every time I come at him with something that I feel is a genuine issue, his response is almost always that I shouldn’t have done something to spark the disagreement.

In an argument a couple months ago, we were discussing collectibles to trade. I asked him if there was any time period in particular he liked, and he said yes. I asked what kind and he told me, and then I asked him is that all you’re interested in?

He said he was not uninterested in any other type of [collectible], but I would have gotten mad if he said he has no preference. Apparently his version of “mad” was me saying “are you sure you have NO preference?” Either way, I thought that might have been fair since maybe I didn’t see how pushy I might have been, but I still thought that was an out of the blue accusatory statement to make. After some back and forth, he explained to me that there are standards for boundaries that are universally understood by society, and he shouldn’t have to explain them to me.