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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here, my issue is that despite the please and thank you, it seems like an order, not a request.  But based on your replies I guess I am wrong.[/quote]

We all take on all sorts of roles in different relationships.  Sometimes, you and your spouse really are co-workers managing running a house together.  Sometimes you are lovers.  Sometimes (like when one of you is sick or tired), you parent each other.

That’s why it’s so funny to imagine this text going out to someone you just started dating who spent the night for the first time.  At that point, you are typically only one thing to each other: romantic partners.  A text like this, treating the other person as a co-worker could read as either rude or too intimate depending on the context.

Whoever sent this to you sees you as a colleague in the management of their house.  Depending on the situation, they either see you as hired help or the see you as someone they are building a home with.  That’s why parent to teen makes sense and husband to wife makes sense and homeowner to housekeeper makes sense.  [/quote]

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