That's not true. After you've been with someone for a while, you know what they want or you know what you're doing that is annoying them, without them having to tell you.For instance, without my wife uttering a word, I can tell when she's grumpy about something. Without her actually asking me anything, even when she uses the same exact word combination when introducing the subject, I can tell if she:
1. Wants me to go somewhere to get us some food.
2. Wants to know if I will watch the children at an inconvenient time.
3. Watch the children during a regular time.
4. Give my consent for her to go on travel without me (I like spending all my free time with my family, so she knows that I won't like her leaving to visit her family on my days off.)
5. Use or use up something of mine that I don't want to be used.
6. When she wants to buy something that isn't cheap.
She does subconscious things like body language or voice inflection that gives it away.
Sometimes I mix up 2, 5, and 6...only because she thinks of them as equally mine (my time, or my things), so she usually does the non-verbal queues just the same for those three items.
She always says, "Hey Dominic" in just a certain way for each of those...and I know exactly what she wants.
This is how it works when you've been together for a while.
Last week, on Monday, she walked into our room, and I was at my desk, doing stupid homework, and she said, "Hey Dominic"...and I immediately interjected and said, "I'm not going anywhere, right now, I've got an assignment due in a couple of hours. If you want some food, YOU get it."
Of course, I was joking around with her and she got a really good laugh out of it, but she said it wasn't fair anymore because I already know what she's going to ask before she asks it. I go my homework done, anyway, and got it. Yes, I'm PW'd. 🙁
It also seems to me that the woman asks for more things. In any relationship I've been in, the woman asks for many more things. It's only the lovin's that I ever ask for...that's almost the only I ever ask for. 😬 I guess I'm easy to please. Nothing special required.