Am I being unreasonable ladies? I live in an ex mining town in the middle of the country. There are very few happily adjusted single women happy in their own skin with no need for a man to rescue them. I am a single parent and quite happy to live alone with my ds who is nearly 13.
The other week I was coming home from a meal out with a platonic man friend. We go out occasionally perhaps twice a year for a meal and sometimes I pay as I tend to have more money than him. He does odd jobs for me so I do not feel I am being used.
The local courier guy sees us roll up on the drive and my friend goes home. He asks if I have been 'taken out' for a meal with my friend. I said I paid. He then says the friend should be 'doing more for me'. I found this really annoying.
Firstly it is none of his business who I go out with and who pays and who doesn't pay. Friends have paid for lunch for me over the years when I have been strapped for cash it is just something friendships do which is absolutely fine.
Perhaps he has no concept of a woman being able to achieve platonic men friendships with no need to hanker after a man for a relationship whatsoever. I used to live in London for 25 years and although I have been up here ten years I still have the London mindset which is emancipation and equality.
I found it really annoying. Any views at all?