What I going to say screams entitlement but let me explain.
I started casually dating a guy 2 1/2 months ago. We have gone on several dates; such as movies or dinner at restaurants and the arcade and sometimes going to the beach.
It’s been a really pleasant time and I don’t want you guys to think I don’t appreciate this guy, because I do, but this really rubbed me the wrong way. As for who has been paying for the dates- we usually split 50/50. He has paid for me once and I have paid for him twice but the rest is split.
So he knows that I have a Gastro-reflux disease (severe acid reflux that I’m on medications for) I can’t eat anything that has red sauces, bbq sauce or artificial dyes such as red or blue. Yes, the medications help but only if I’m sticking to a pretty clean diet. I can’t even eat hamburgers because of the red dye they use. When I eat the things mentioned above, I feel like I’m having a heart attack. As I said, he knows ALL of this. We have talked about it several times.
So he invites me over to his place and says he wants to make dinner.
He makes a point to tell me to “make sure you have a strong appetite” so I didn’t eat anything at all since breakfast and I was starving after working all day. So I arrive at 6 pm and I see him making steak, eggs, potatoes and corn on the cob (the small ones that you put in pasta salad). It looked and smelled delicious. He puts on a movie while we wait, so I’m in the living room the entire time he is cooking.
Well, he keeps going back and forth between the kitchen and living room and on his last trip back, he brings out our plates and much to my surprise, it’s pizza. I just kind of looked at him and ask where the steak and eggs were and he pretty bluntly said that was for his dogs (2 German Shepard’s) and stated they eat better than he does. I reminded him that I couldn’t eat pizza (red sauce) and he starts arguing that he made sure to not put much sauce on it(its frozen) and kept telling me to just try it.
I asked if he had anything else and he said no. I told him sorry but I needed to go and excuse myself. On the way home I grabbed myself something to eat.
Well, he calls me and it sounds like he is having a meltdown. Saying he can’t believe I made him feel like that and that the pizza was homemade and he made sure not to put much sauce on it (but he knows I can’t have it at all) and said something about adding sugar to it, etc. Said I’ve showed my true colors.
My friends also think I’m overreacting here and said I’m acting jealous of his dogs.Â
Here are what netizens think:
- This is what casual dating is for. He seems to have confused dislike of strong sauce (hence the sugar) for an actual medical condition, but it is odd that he can’t seem to understand the simple medical explanation. Not sure this has Anything to do with the dogs.
- Like that you can always be his dog, since his dog life is better than yours.
- I am an old woman. I keep reading about young men not finding women to date. If they all act like this guy I can understand why?