Oh, I think it has to do with the Ten Commandments. It says "honor thy father and mother" not "honor thy father and mother except when they are jerks."

[Which isn’t to say Yelena feels like punching Alexei was a sin or that she feels especially bad about it. But she can see why it was put on a list compiled in a version of the Christian idea of Hell.]

I don’t know. When he is acting respectful I respect him.

[And when get doesn’t she calls him out.]