“No matter what the end of this question is, it is already overflowing with negative connotations and shame before the subject is even delivered,” notes Britanny Burr, a love and relationship expert. “Asking someone why they don’t do something that you would like them to do is not going to make them want to do it; it is merely shaming them and making them feel poorly about something they may not have known you wanted.”
So instead of saying: ‘Why don’t you ever take me out to dinner anymore?’ Try: ‘Wouldn’t it be fun to go for dinner sometime this week?’
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