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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When I first got together with my husband, who is from India, he told me that when I said thanks to him it made him feel distanced and more formal/less intimate. He said in his family nobody ever needed to say thanks. Maybe it depends on the region in India?[/quote]

Yes, my south Indian husband said the same thing . [/quote]

+1.

And I must note from the perspective of this particular female American that most don't ACT particularly grateful toward the person in the house who does the most work (my mother-in-law, or one of her brother's wives, depending on who is around).

They also never say "I love you" to each other.

My sense is that these may not be regional differences so much as differences of class, because I lived in northern India in college and heard the same explanation. Maybe this is more common among families in which the older generation is not fluent in English and who are not in the upper- or upper-middle classes?[/quote]

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