I was mulling over something earlier. A friend and I were comparing notes of yesteryear and we made the following observations.
My mother, if out with me and my wife in a restaurant for example, would always turn to my wife to ask her what she thought she (my mother) should have. Never asked me ! If I made a suggestion, it would be ignored in favour of my wife's choice.
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And if I went out with my best friend to a restaurant with his mother, his mother would do exactly the same and ask me what she should have. Never asked her own son.
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We both joked about it, although of course it did make us quite cross at the time.
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Neither of us can decide whether it was a measure of politeness to seek a guest's opinion, or if it was a subvert form of "control and conditioning - eg, "know your place".
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I suspect a little bit of both to be fair.
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