We are raised from different school of thought, some with a tough and stern way of life, others with a friendly flexible living. As an individual growing up, we have been wired by our parents and guidance philosophy about life, this influence the way a lot of people interact and relate with people in their lives.
Strictness is a good virtue, but its a completely different thing when you treat people like shit and claim to be stern. Recently I found out the best way to know people's true character is by being extremely friendly and lively, that way people will shun you and ignore you, abuse you and treat you like dirt or maybe completely ghost on you thinking its a way life.
Not quite long, I switched my switch and started treating a female friend exactly the way She's been treating me. She claims she was raised strictly hence she has to be extremely strict. You dare not crack some joke or try to start and intimate convoy with this lady, it will come back to bite you the way and manner she will respond and call you to order. So I started giving her a dose of her medicine, and she is been telling me I'm less friendly and cold hearted, what she failed to realised was that her been strict gave me a perspective on how to treat and interact with her.
There are unnecessary habits that needs to be subdue by certain individuals, these habits could include not being humorous, hating to be called pet names, been ignored, regarding everything as flirt, not picking calls or cutting conversations off. There are many more but these are the few popular ones people who claims to be strict exhibit. Its a rigid way of life and it could render an individual friendless, lonely and trapped!