This makes giving a one-sided affair instead of what it is meant to be—a happiness-producing act of shared, mutual warmth.

Here’s a quick quiz. Person A does a favor for you. Person B asks you to do a favor for him. Who are you liable to like more?

President Donald Trump claimed to have "asked a favor" of Elon Musk to complete the retrieval of astronauts from the International Space Station, continuing to take partisan swipes at the Biden ...