Not so much okay as controlling. I think it's best to take people as they are and not try to change them. Or you can just leave them alone. Avoid them completely. I mean sometimes you wish they weren't what they are or whom they are but they also wish that very same thing about you too. So we are what we are and whom we are and either we accept that or we can be hermits or worst case we can find someone exactly like us and live without growing or stretching the rest of our lives. If people don't "obey" us or do what we require to like them better maybe we just aren't people persons. I dunno.Who really likes someone who is dissatisfied with the way you are and keeps trying to change you? Doesn't that become boring and tiresome and tedious very quickly and make you lose interest? So he/she says/does some things you'd rather they didn't do too. Do you have a list of dealbreakers? Is it extensive? Is everything you don't like a dealbreaker? SIGH.