answer:Just a factoid that I read recently in a book titled Subliminal: How your Unconscious Mind Rules your Behavior: Eye contact communicates dominance, but most important is when the eye contact occurs. Dominant individuals maintain eye contact while they’re speaking, but not always while the other person is speaking. The more submissive individual breaks eye contact when he speaks, and is more likely to maintain eye contact when the other person speaks. So if you don’t want to come off as the doormat in the relationship, make a conscious effort to speak into the other person’s eyes.