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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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kayoshin · 36-40, M
Those things sound so wildly specific you should already know the answer. It should be somewhat hard to find 2 men that take that exact pattern, let alone assume all do.
As a person I find essential to establish what I expect from a relationship since it makes no sense to me to lie then slowly reveal what I really want and find out that we want different things that's a waste of both our times. That doesn't mean I set the tone it means I put my cards on the table you put yours and we see if it's a match or we should call it quits before the drama.
Would I sooner or later invite her to my home? Yes, that's usually how you get to the intimate part of the relationship.
Would I want to invade her home with my things? No, I like my things in reach. However if she's making me spend a lot of time there I do need the basics I'm not gonna do a no teeth brushed messy hair walk every time I sleep over. If you expect a man or woman to have "sleepovers" but you also expect them to not have a personal drawer and bathroom space, then you're treating them like a one night stand not like someone in a relationship, to me that would be a red flag.

So about accomodation that is a you thing not the other person's problem. If you use people pleasing and forget about your needs to attract people into a relationship, it's your choice and don't be surprised if they expect you to keep that up forever. It's your job to assert your needs and your job to decide when they are not met. If you skip asserting your needs while only tending his/hers then it's only natural that they assume you only live to serve them. So be both a people pleaser and ask to be pleased. Give a favour - ask a favour, see what they're ready to invest early on.
Don't think in terms of hierarchy or you'll always get paranoid about who's in charge and misinterpret simple things as dominance moves. Instead just see if you are happy and remember that
1. Not all men share 1 brain.
2. Most of us don't care who's in charge as long as we're in good company.
3. Most men are just as afraid as you are of being dominated in a relationship, that doesn't mean they want to be in charge, they simply are afraid of being pushed around. So if you start acting paranoid about a hierarchy and always trying to prove he's not the boss of you, you'll just trigger his fear and he'll one up you to show you're not the boss of him... Loop of relationship death.
Mellowgirl · 31-35, F
@kayoshin so to clarify I don't try to dominate anyone.
I urge you read other responses.
I also don't try to get a hierarchical structure going in my home.
I like peace and balance.
Hence why I'm asking about it since that's what he seems to be doing by trying to make all my focus on him and ignore my own needs. Whats worse is he will offer to do something to help but only do it in part...
kayoshin · 36-40, M
@Mellowgirl and I urge you to reread, I didn't say you try to set up a hierarchy but that acting in a way that is defensive about this can set off just the opposite reaction.
Also you asked a question about ALL MEN yet you compare the answers you receive with just one particular case and dismiss other men's views... So if you just wanted to see why that guy acts like he does and not actual diverse answers, why not just confront him?
Read other answers to do what, give you an uniform response and some pat on the back and assure you you are the victim and do no wrong? It's not how it works. You asked a GENERAL question so I have no reason to investigate your particular case, I answered with general reasoning. If you felt identified with the answer it's your call. Not mine.

You do realise that when you ask a generalized question the "you" is not someone specific but anyone that sees themselves in that context.