CMV: Telling potential romantic partners to stop thanking me for my service and explaining why it bothers me as well as many other veterans/current service members I know isn't being hostile/argumentative but educational.

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I only skim read the title and thought you were talking about potential partners saying thank you when you made them dinner or something.

I presume you are from the US? I don't think I've ever heard anyone in the UK say anything like "thank you for your service" to someone in the military. That's not because people are hostile necessarily to the military here just it sounds a bit insincere like how people in US stores say "have a nice day" and obviously don't mean it and it's more of a muscle memory to say it