Well, in the Agamemnon, the first play of the Oresteia, there’s clearly a language barrier, but the Trojans, her own people, refused to believe her till the city was burning down around their ears. And even then they were probably too busy fighting to think, oh yeah, Cassandra said this was gonna happen.

LT, it’s an obnoxious thing to hear and I think he said it from spite. That doesn’t mean he didn’t identify a pattern you may have about boundaries correctly. I’d just keep it in mind and check in with yourself about it occasionally.