If you went in to take a shower, you could lock the other door, so the people in the next room wouldn't barge in on you. But she never locked the door...on our side, she just closed it over a good bit and then went into the shower.I was walking out of the room one night when I realized that I could see her in the shower through the crack in the half-open door. The shower curtain didn't quite cover all the way over, and I could look right in, watching her soap herself under the hot spray of water.. I could only assume that whatever joke they were smiling at, must have had something to do with the words the child had said to her mother. But hardly speaking a word of the lingo, it had gone over my head. I shrugged back at the people on the nearest table — which brought an even bigger grin to their faces, and confused me even more — then returned to trying to read my book, or rather, I attempted too. Maybe another five minutes had passed, and everyone had apparently gone back to minding. Usually there’s one partner that’s more dominant than the other. What appears to be equality in those partnerships is actually the dominant partner inviting the subservient partner to be involved in the decision-making process. That might make the couple seem democratic and equal on the surface but when you drill down into the dynamics of the relationship, the imbalance is revealed. A lot of this can be operating at the subconscious level. An amazing number of couples think they share power. ’ Mendoza’s gaze was fixed on the ever disappearing ship. ‘How many injured?’ Mendoza gruffly asked. ‘Only 4, 5 including you.’ The bosun replied sternly, ‘The captain is down below with the ships surgeon, Mendoza, I beseech you, focus on fixing things here first, we will get Ava.’ Mendoza’s fury erupted, ‘Every damned second you waste talking is a second further away from the pirates! Hoist the mainsail, hard to starboard and get this ship going!’ he commanded to the dishevelled crew. ‘Get.