"He treats/treated me Like A Princess..."

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What does that even mean?

I see it loads on threads, "he used to treat me like a princess". I don't know what it means.

If I go out with someone, I want them to treat me with respect and be honest with me. I want them to take an interest in me and have a laugh with them.

But I think of Like A Princess and I assume it means "he put me on a pedestal" or "he bought me lots of shiny pretty things" or "he wouldn't let me pay for anything and insisted on making all of the decisions" or "lovebombing" or whatever.

I can't imagine how being treated Like A Princess could ever be a positive! Ever. It's horribly misogynistic and sounds a lot like the sort of man who treats a woman Like A Princess is also the sort who expects a woman to be demure, ladylike, coy, sweet...

Can someone please enlighten me?

Kiss of death? Surely you would judge them on how they treated you and interacted you. Not how they chose to phrase it?

Judge on what they do and the person they show themselves to be rather than a clumsily worded phrase.

I don't think there would be much interacting if a man I'd started seeing started talking about me being his princess or him treating me like a princess.

See the thing is the phrase shows how someone feels about how they treat you. You can be being treated well by someone who doesn't consider you an equal and therefore at some point withdraws the good treatment. That's what it's a red flag of for me. How they treated me would not be as important to me as finding out what they actually meant to say and how they feel about women in general.

Yes. And they are telling you that that have decided what treatment you deserve.

I know what treatment I deserve thanks.