"Have you ever been in a controlled relationship?"

Yeah, I actually got to do the controlling back when I was in high school. This girl told me she was only happy when she was being controlled like her boyfriend, like she was my property or something. At first I thought this was going to be awesome, but from then on it quickly spiraled downward into a bunch of awkwardness and stupidity. One of our conversations while I was talking to some friends in between classes.

Her: *gets up and has a pissed look on her face* "I'm leaving now."
Me: "Oh, okay then."
Her: "Don't you wanna know where I'm going?"
Me: "Um, where are you going?"
Her: "I'm going to the lunchroom."
Me: "...kthxbye." [/facepalm]

Maybe I was doing it wrong, I don't know, but I had to deal with this stuff on a daily basis. Not only that, but by her wanting me to control her, in a way she was actually controlling me, so it set the mood for all kinds of reverse psychology BS and plot twists that you would only see in like the Bourne series. Anywho, after about 3 months of dating this woman, I dropped her quite quickly, and we both went on our merry ways. I hold nothing against her and wish her the best, but that relationship was just too strange for me on a daily basis for me to keep up.

"Have you ever been in a relationship that you thought was SO RIGHT, even though your family disapproved, only later to 'snap out of it' and wondered what you were thinking?"

Hmm, not really. I think I've learned quite a few things about either myself or others that made the dating with said girl at least worthwhile. And, I don't think my parents have ever disapproved of a single girl that I brought home in the slightest; they're pretty supportive of who I see, and they know that I like to pick the winners, at least most of the time anyways

And on the flirting sidenote, that just seems like such a grey area that it can't really be controlled at times. I know sometimes I am friendly to female coworkers and offer assistance to them at times, and to some, that may seem like flirting. And as a self-rule, I only flirt with people I feel comfortable around, or if they made the first move back I will typically playfully respond so they don't see me as a douche. I don't flirt with people that I don't know, and my girlfriends are comfortable enough to know that I am with them and no one else. Sure, yeah I can get jealous at times if someone is flirting with my girlfriend and all, but then I put myself in their shoes and realize they get that a lot. It's all about the cognitive complexity. Besides, all the girls that I've been in relationships have been dangerously beautiful, so in a way it's kinda helped mellow out my jealousy a lot anyways.