Psychological dominance
Psychological dominance
My husband exercises a certain amount of psychological control over me, but he doesn't use it to extract service from me, he's never regarded me in the light of a servant. I do periodically shovel handfuls of clothes into the washing machine, including socks, but so does he, it's not something he would demand of me. and it would never occur to him to ask me to get him a drink that he could quite well get for himself. Actually, in the service area he has always given rather more to me than I to him (he is in the kitchen cooking Christmas lunch even as I write this, while here I am messing about on the computer).