Can I get some male perspective please?

As a man, when you are dating. Is it essential for you to set the tone of the relationship?
Is it imperative that if you invite a woman into your home and when she invites you into hers, you put things in place to assert your dominance or position?

Is it essential for you to make full use of her attempts to please and accommodate you, so that she thinks only of your needs and very little of her own?

Is this what is done until the hierarchy is established?
Or is this just a certain type of man behaviour?

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Threepio

As a man, when you are dating. Is it essential for you to set the tone of the relationship?

Seriously....NO!

It has been a long time since I have "dated". But as I tell my single friends (when they ask for my secrets....), .....dating is a compatibility check. As in are you compatible, do you have mutual interests and so forth.

What you have described here is a "control freak". Not an equal and certainly not compatible.