In my house there are 2 generals, no one is a mere soldier. It makes for heated battles! I tell him we should take turns backing down, but it usually falls to me to be the backer downer. And since I am very similar to the way you have described yourself in other questions, that is full of rage and anger from being ACOA, it sometimes takes me much longer than I would like before I do it. But I keep working on it, life is a process and I think it keeps going until the day I die.