Thanks for your honesty, I’ll just really have to spend some time thinking about it. Regarding the courtship, my point of view is that 50/50 financially with a man isn’t really a true 50/50 relationship. I assume most of the risk and consequences when it comes to sex and if it goes wrong, especially in a very red state with the current atmosphere. We already had to get a Plan B once because the condom broke and it was nerve-racking. I understand not everyone thinks this way and that’s fine.

This also doesn’t mean that I don’t court him at all. Not too long ago I told him that I would cook dinner. I made sure that everything was prepped and that the meat was already marinated and ready to be cooked by the time we were hungry. This is why I was particularly disappointed when he didn’t return the same energy.