It started like something out of a romantic movie. Her brother had set her up with one of his pickleball friends \u2014 Andy, a polite, well-spoken man who had \u201cbeen single too long.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After some hesitation, she agreed to go. Andy showed up at her door with flowers. At dinner, he was attentive and respectful \u2014 pulling out her chair, asking questions about her work, and never interrupting. He even insisted on driving her home afterward, saying, \u201cA gentleman always makes sure his date gets home safely.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As she walked inside and waved to him from the window, she thought she might have finally found a man who was truly different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But the next morning shattered that illusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At 7:13 a.m.<\/strong>, her phone buzzed with a message from Andy. Expecting a sweet \u201cGood morning\u201d text, she opened it \u2014 only to find a long paragraph accusing her of being \u201cungrateful\u201d for not inviting him in after the date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He wrote that he\u2019d \u201cspent good money\u201d on dinner, that \u201cany decent woman\u201d would\u2019ve shown appreciation, and that he \u201cwasn\u2019t looking to be used for free meals.\u201d The text ended with a chilling line:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI\u2019m done wasting my time on women who don\u2019t understand how dating works.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n She sat there, stunned. The charming, polite man from last night had vanished \u2014 replaced by someone entitled and manipulative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Later, she told her brother what happened. His face fell. \u201cYou\u2019re not the first woman he\u2019s said that to,\u201d he admitted quietly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The experience was a wake-up call \u2014 a reminder that sometimes the red flags don\u2019t wave on the first date. Sometimes, they arrive the next morning \u2014 neatly packaged in a text message.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Her takeaway?<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cPoliteness doesn\u2019t equal respect. Real gentlemen don\u2019t keep score \u2014 they give kindness without expecting it as currency.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It started like something out of a romantic movie. Her brother had set her up with one of his pickleball friends \u2014 Andy, a polite, well-spoken man… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5200,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5199\/revisions\/5200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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