I was just listening to Russ Martin on the radio and he was freaking out because his girlfreind (of a monthish) put a toothbrush in his shopping cart to go at his house without asking. She said hers was broken or something. First I thought he was just being a control freak (as he also had wierd problems with her putting up his groceries and walking his dog without his permission)(and at the time I was kinda thinking "people dont need my permission to do me favors"), but then a woman called in and said that it was stereotypical girl games.
She said women do little things like moving things around in the house, swooping in and taking care of you when your sick to make you need them, sharing in buying little nickel and dime things (like toothbrushes) to make themselves part of the household unit, and generally testing the waters in all kinds of ways to see how far they can push without getting pushed back at the beginning of a relationship.
You girls are tricky fuckers arent you?
So my question is: Do you really do things like this? While your doing it are you thinking in terms of formulating a strategy or do these things come intuitively to you? And most interestingly what is the most amazing feat of manipulation you can remember pulling off?