The phrase "asserting you want to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when expressing a declaration or confirmation of one's desires or intentions.
Example: "In the meeting, she was asserting you want to take the lead on the project."
Alternatives: "claiming you wish to" or "stating your desire to".
For instance, based on experience, one nurse asserted that ' When you want to transfer a patient in a hurry there will be an obstruction there... you know there will be excuses.
This seems straightforward in the case of (b): one can detach "You shouldn't work in a bar" from (b) by asserting "You (do) want to get drunk every evening".
"Just when you want to assert yourself and have some good confident 'self-talk' going," she wrote, "you 'forget' some important detail or realize you've asked your spouse or friend the same question three or four times and they are tired of giving the answer over and over!
And a special word to Millenials: if you want to assert your independence, VOTE.
You want to assert that she's not a liberal enough Democrat, a left enough liberal; too conservative to be a left enough liberal for the lefties of the liberal branch of the Democratic party, go for it.
The merger did nothing to dispel the university's reputation for being where English-speaking students went when McGill wouldn't have them, and it did absolutely no good to assert that if you wanted to study history, engineering, music, fine arts or (shudder) film, this really was the only game in town.
At the end of his sermon, Mohler boldly asserted: "I want to suggest to you that when it comes to the confrontation between evolutionary theory and the Christian gospel we have a head-on collision.
She is offended by the very idea of it, asserting, "If they want to talk to me, they can pick up the phone and call".
Now Mr. Meltser's 9 Brooklyn trucks and 12 workers must be gone by March because, he asserts, "they want to clear us out for movie-related businesses".
They assert they want to hold teachers and schools to higher performance standards so that children, especially those in poor communities, receive a quality education.
