“Once, my dad watched Universal Soldier before going to bed, and the next morning, my mom told me she woke up in the middle of the night by him saying, ‘You’re going to die — BANG, BANG, BANG!’ and finger-gunning her in the ribs. She had to hit him to wake him up.”
she has figured out that if she just agrees to whatever I am saying, I go back to sleep.
if she disagrees, I create a whole angry argument around it until she agrees