I went on a date with a guy my friend set me up with. He showed up with flowers\u2014real roses, not a quick grocery-store grab. Dinner was perfect. He was charming, opened doors, pulled out my chair, and made me laugh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When the check came, I reached for my wallet. Big mistake.
\u201cAbsolutely not,\u201d he said firmly, sliding his card down. \u201cA man pays on the first date.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I left thinking it was one of the best first dates I\u2019d ever had. I went to bed smiling, convinced I might have met someone truly special.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But the next morning, everything changed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When I checked my phone, I saw he had sent me a Venmo request<\/strong>\u2014for half the bill. My jaw dropped. Along with it, a message: I stared at the screen, torn between laughing and fuming. The same man who insisted \u201ca man pays on the first date\u201d couldn\u2019t even last twelve hours before backtracking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I didn\u2019t reply. Instead, I canceled any thought of a second date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Because here\u2019s the truth: it wasn\u2019t about the money\u2014it was about honesty and consistency. And if he couldn\u2019t stand by his word on day one, why should I believe he\u2019d stand by me later?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sometimes, the red flags wave quietly the morning after.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I went on a date with a guy my friend set me up with. He showed up with flowers\u2014real roses, not a quick grocery-store grab. Dinner was… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u201cHad a great time last night! Just think it\u2019s fair we split things equally if we\u2019re serious about dating.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n