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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We just started dating about a month ago. We were talking on the phone and I asked her what she was up to. [b]She said she had just finished watching the news[/b]. I replied with, “oh what news? TMZ, [b]National inquirer, Star magazine[/b]?” and I started laughing. She paused, and said, “you must think I’m an airhead or not particularly bright for you to assume I read such low brow things as my source of news. I don’t appreciate it and don’t do that again”. In my defense I know she is into celebrity gossip. Heck, she’ll even ask me once in awhile if I want to hear the gossip of the day.

I think she was being petty. Thoughts?[/quote]

Can we just revisit this for a minute? I’m assuming you’re just a troll who didn’t proofread carefully enough, because this is nonsense.[/quote]

What’s the big deal? I’m doing this from my phone so I didn’t take the time to capitalize everything properly.[/quote]

Lol. Are you OP? The issue isn’t capitalization, it’s that when the woman said she just finished WATCHING the news, you asked if she had just finished watching the National Enquirer, or Star magazine…both are print publications. [/quote]

He knows those are print magazines, not news. This is why we said he’s the a-hole for insinuating that’s her form of news.[/quote]

Or she overreacted because it's clearly a joke since they can't be watched.[/quote]

*furious backpedaling*[/quote]

Or the issue is the OP proved he wasn’t even listening. She said she watched the news and OP responded with print media that only old people read or know about and a website whose heyday way 10+ years ago. To top it off I don’t think OP knows what petty means. The more OP protests, the more I am starting to picture his as some newly divorced white guy in his 50s, new to dating with rusty social skills because of the pandemic. Possibly OP has dabbled in pick up culture and male rights BS and thinks he “deserves” this woman and/or thinks subtle put downs will make women want him. [/quote]

I’m not in my 50s. I’m 39 and have been divorced for 3 years now. [/quote]

Yeah that’s unsurprising.

Break up, because you’re obviously not willing to be the kind of partner this woman wants (respectful, open to being told when she doesn’t see eye to eye with you, accepting of constructive criticism) and either find someone whose “humor” aligns with yours or (better!) do some therapy to figure out why you’re so triggered by this— Sunday morning couch psychology suggests you’ve got some lingering baggage from the divorce. [/quote]

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