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Old Feb 13, 2018, 01:30 PM
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This man you are now living with is showing you that in his experience his mother fixed everything "for" him and he just assumes that "you" will be that way too. He has developed into a person that just expects this and does not give it another thought.

If you teach a human being to "expect" things to happen a certain way, they will "expect" things to happen a certain way. There is a term for this pattern, "entitled". Even animals will learn to "expect" things too. I noticed that when I had my ponies on the cross ties so I could groom them and saddle them up, they began getting carrots fed to them and it got to the point where they would not stand still and behave and constantly expected to get carrots. They even began nipping and pawing their feet with insistence to get carrots. Because they noticed that carrots were often kept in pockets they began to reach out and nip at my pockets while I was leading them too. That is when I stopped allowing them to be fed carrots and treats because they were getting way too entitled and rude.
Thanks for this!
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