In marriage, whenever there is a controlling wife who tries to lead her husband instead of submitting to him, if you look closely you'll often find that at least part of the reason for her taking charge is that her husband failed to lead strongly enough. And the stronger-willed the woman, the stronger-willed her husband must be in order to provide the leadership that she expects -
I have seen this too.....and it applies to other things as well.
Training horses it is the person that is supposed to lead and direct.....but a smart and strong willed horse can mess up and reverse things. Such animals often make THE BEST horses, once they are retrained and submitted to the human handler.
Some horses are low key and easy....some are tempermental, some are just mental (read ideal for Alpo *edited to add that alpo was a brand of dog food )
Most will be fine if someone is just firm, fair and friendly....and learns to speak "horse."
I hope @andrew covers how he learned to convert woman-speak to man-speak in that book he's gonna write. That would be priceless info!
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