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This is just a simple failure of communication, nothing more or less, caused by the inability or unwillingness of one party to put themselves in the other party's shoes and consider how their words will be interpreted, then modify their words appropriately to get the actual meaning across.
It happens all the time in politics, in business, in friendships, even in interactions between complete strangers; it happens between men and men, between women and women, and between men and women. Why should the bedroom be any exception?
Communication with someone who thinks differently than ourselves is hard, and many of us aren't as good at it as we think we are.
