My Date Picked Up the Tab—Then Sent an “Invoice”: A Modern Dating Red Flag You Shouldn’t Ignore

child or grandchild through online dating red flags, this is a textbook example: pressure disguised as playfulness, a favor reframed as debt, and a “joke” used to test your compliance.

Why the “Invoice” Was More Than a Bad Joke

People sometimes trot out humor to test what they can get away with. It’s a tactic as old as grade school: say the outrageous continue reading …