Suppose your son is employed, but trying to save for a down payment on a home, or graduate school, and hopes to split the dinner bill. Should he go on a dinner date with a woman? As we saw, 72 percent of women feel the man should pay the full bill on the first date.14 While he doesn’t know the statistic per se, his life experience validates it. And he is probably part of the 82 percent of men who agree. So while just talking with a woman he hopes to ask out can catalyze his fears of rejection and being unworthy—he may fear looking like a fool for taking a nice conversation to a romantic
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