Me and my man have been together 6 years now. Lately we’ve been struggling with feeling like we on opposite sides. We have conflicting ideas about relationship dynamic. He thinks very traditional and I lean more towards ‘liberal’. We both use to be very wild. Over the years he has become more conservative and traditional, looking down on woman who show a ton of skin or people with tons of tattoos, but also wanting strongly to provide for his family and support us as best he can. (We have a two year old). I on the other hand am still infatuated with people differences and always think optimistically. Very free spirited and hippy type mindset. I grew up very independent so I’m naturally dominant. I crave a dynamic where in many ways he is alpha and takes the lead but there’s this growing imbalance where I feel he wants me to conform to him more and more without doing it back to me. Says he wants a modest and peaceful woman that’s not so combative, which in many ways I would love to do for him, but I constantly feel like my thoughts, ideas and feeling are looked down on or seen as less than, so I’m finding it difficult to be submissive when I don’t get it in return. He feels like I don’t respect him and question him too much. It’s been an awful power struggle and I’m desperate to find balance.. have any of you ladies experience this and figured how to overcome it??