A lot of times someone rubs us the wrong way and ruffle our feathers but instead of approaching the individual and demanding respect, we find ourself added to that person's collection of people they can walk over. I first learned to practive assertiveness while attending an anger management class. No anger issues here, I am an Instructor and teach a stress mgmt. class so I figure I could learn from anger management. As I soon learned people who get walked over do carry anger but unhealthy anger because they keep it bottled up.