Power struggle, signs of dominance in conversation through limitations in speech... superiority shown through employment status.

"Let's talk about this later" does not equal "I'm more important than you"

Tone, vocal patterns would say otherwise... something that cannot properly be conveyed over plurk (unfortunately)

Questions: Is HOW something is said more important than WHAT is being said?

Words give you context, tone/body language give you the implied “feeling”?

Relationships are endlessly a power struggle.

For equality or superiority?

Superiority. No one wants to have less control in the relationship, but we all fool ourselves into thinking that more control means we'd run

it better than the other