Potentially Great

     The other night I was given a choice; I could either stay upstairs and wait for Prince and SnowDove to come back up, or I could join them downstairs. I chose the one that I thought would help our relationship the most; I went downstairs with them. But I was wrong.
     Prince laid down in bed, like he was getting ready to sleep. I crawled in beside him and Dove was getting ready to climb in beside him on the other side. He turned towards me, I think because I was giving him more attention and because he was more comfortable on his right side at the time, immediately I felt a strong feeling from Dove. The look on her face was... well its indescribable. For a second she looked like she was going to scream at him for turning away from her. Then the look was gone and it turned into something that said more-or-less that she didn't give a shit. Dove climbed in beside him anyway and I decided to ignore the previous looks and act as if I didn't see a thing. I did this because she needed to work on being more assertive rather then passive aggressive. She didn't say a thing. In fact, she didn't do anything either. She laid there while I tried to overlook how completely uncomfortable I was and make Prince happy. Until I gave up. I would just go upstairs and forget about them for a while. Whatever.
     20 minutes later, I was asked to come back down. Very calmly, very respectfully, I told them why I was annoyed;
     1) I was asked to choose between staying upstairs and following them down. I chose the wrong one apparently. 2) Dove got way too upset all because Prince didn't see her going in for a kiss. Yeah, I could see how that would annoy her, it would definitely annoy me. But even after we have told her how to deal with this kind of thing, over and over again, she still couldn't figure it out. All she had to do was either ask for a kiss or follow him over. 3) It felt to me that she was looking for a reason to be mad considering she couldn't be mad that I chose to come downstairs with them. After all, she did give me a choice. 5) Because she had a hard time rapping her head around the reasons for him turning over (because it was more comfortable position for his body; because I was quicker to give him attention) she stopped a potentially great night for all 3 of us and took for herself, quite willingly, I might add. 4) We have gone over this kind of thing, time and time again and yet she still doesn't learn.
     You really have no idea how frustrating this is for me. You can introduce a new concept to me and I will either understand it or ask more questions so that I can understand it. This doesn't seem to be the case with Dove. I feel like it's more 'tell me once now, so you can repeat it throughout the next couple of months until I understand it'. Now, I'm not saying this to be mean, I'm simply stating what I see and feel. If it's going to be taken wrong, then go ahead and forget I said anything. My point here, is that I'm tired of repeating the same thing over and over again. Prince has the patience for this, but I really don't.