The D/s aspect of our relationship is our "play". We tease or pick at each other from sun up til sun down. Some people might think I am being a brat, but we are both Leo's. We both demand attention equally and when we feel like we are not getting it, from the outside looking in, I am sure it probably looks worse than we intend. We nit-pick each other. We smack each other on the ass or grab each other everytime we walk past one another. We doubt each others abilities and sometime stoop to name calling - that is how we tease and most of the time, it is all in play.
When we are having rough sex and he's being dominate he will bring up all those times I was bratty and he will indeed "punish" me for it (spankings, tying me down, all the things I like, and whatever else he can think of). He counts and he remembers all the times I was pushy and trying to assert my dominance. I love it that he remembers all that stuff. It tells me that he is listening at least some of the time.
This is not something we do in public however, we would never want someone looking in on our relationship and thinking we were being disrespectful toward each other. Don't get me wrong, there are times when he just pisses me off (and vice versa) and I will lose my head.