((Love Bird))
I think i get ya little here. with wanting to "childish things" in the private of your home-- I say put those pig tails up!
A few months I posed a similar question in Survives of abuse - no need for trigger button.
But what some people said there, it really helped me a lot. Maybe you too could take something from what they told me?
http://forums.psychcentral.com/survi...sh-things.html
I agree, I want to be heard and understood and independant, if I have something to say seriously I don't want to be treated as if I am nothing- My childhood has a lot to do with that as well.
Worse yet there are times with my S/O, i still feel like "I am not being heard"...... I am still working on that... I am making sure though that I hear me, -- i have some anger problems as well- and I myself have to sort out the being assertive, and not being a raging b**ch at times.

Hope someone else can hop on and give you more but just thought I would post the link because what some others said really helped me feel more comfortable with my s/o reading to me in bed, something i never got as a child and it is very comforting-- even if it is whinnie the pooh he reads to me.