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Have you ever had someone insist that you will like something, as though you have no choice?

Asked by Dutchess_III (46814points) February 2nd, 2019

My mom used to make pralines for my dad (she only ever cooked sweets for him. If it just so happened that we liked them too, we were allowed to have a little bit.) All I really remember was that she used butterscotch pudding. She also told me she had gotten the recipe from Aunt Erma who lived a few hundred miles away.
Well, then Mom left. A few years later I was visiting my Aunt Erma and I asked her if she could give me that praline recipe.
She said she had a better one, and read it off for me.
I said, “But I wanted the one that used the butterscotch pudding like Mom used to make.”
She literally refused to give it to me, saying, almost angrily, “This recipe is much better!”
It was crazy. And it wasn’t nearly as good as what my mom used to make, in my opinion.

And I’ve been looking for it ever since.

Have you ever encountered someone so controlling?

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