Relationship Series: Bossy Career Women

What game are you playing?
She is a bossy career woman and doesn’t choose her family. 
The game she is playing: I play to win. 

I Play to Win

She wants to conquer men, conquer the business, and conquer everything because she plays to win.  She works 100% harder than others with a remarkable performance at work.  When she takes the lead in the business battle to win the deal, she was so good to maneuver the tactics and strategy far better than what you can read in the war book.  One of the frustrating things is that at the end of the day, she still needs a man.  Is it better for her to understand this earlier or surrender earlier? The answer is yes, and no.  

She didn’t mean to upset anyone. She stands for her point with confidence.  In return, she expects her partner to agree with her idea and the support she had from him.  She has no idea she did carry the bossy role at home when her husband asks her three questions:

• What’s your very act of asking me to do something?
• What’s your response when you think something goes wrong?
• Who’s the first one to mention divorce during a fight?

She doesn’t need to win all the battles.  By the time when her hubby challenges her on some point, any point, she launches an inquest.  She asks him to tell her why he disagrees, and then she tries to catch him in an inconsistency.  Her follow-up questions are like those used by a lawyer trying to get an unreliable witness to admit his faults.  She almost always wins and gets a concession from her witness.  Her husband has concluded it’s just not worth disagreeing with her, or it’s not even worth talking to her, since you never know when a topic will lead to a controversy. When she wins all the battles, but she loses the metaphorical war.  She loses the opportunity to spend an enjoyable time with the one she loves.