{"id":40169,"date":"2026-02-23T00:41:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T00:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=40169"},"modified":"2026-02-23T00:41:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T00:41:25","slug":"i-refused-to-split-the-bill-and-the-cost-was-painful-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=40169","title":{"rendered":"I Refused to Split the Bill \u2014 and the Cost Was Painful"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>I\u00a0went on\u00a0my\u00a0first date with a\u00a0guy from a\u00a0dating app. I\u00a0ordered everything\u00a0I wanted and ate way too much. When the bill came, he\u00a0suggested splitting\u00a0it. I\u00a0said, \u201cNo. You invited\u00a0me. You pay.\u201d He\u00a0paid, but what\u00a0I didn\u2019t know was that he\u00a0secretly saved my\u00a0contact in\u00a0his phone under a\u00a0different name.I\u00a0only found out later. While we\u00a0were saying goodbye in\u00a0the car, his phone lit\u00a0up, and\u00a0I saw how\u00a0I was saved: \u201cThe entitled girl. Never again.\u201d I\u00a0stayed quiet and didn\u2019t say anything.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>That moment hurt more than I\u00a0expected. Not just because of\u00a0the words themselves, but because\u00a0I had actually liked him. The date hadn\u2019t felt hostile or\u00a0tense, and\u00a0I had no\u00a0idea he\u00a0was making such a\u00a0harsh judgment about me\u00a0in\u00a0private.hortly after, his profile disappeared from the app. I\u00a0never heard from him again. There was no\u00a0explanation, no\u00a0conversation\u00a0\u2014 just silence.Now I\u00a0don\u2019t know what to\u00a0do. I\u00a0keep wondering if\u00a0I handled the bill situation completely wrong, or\u00a0if\u00a0I should have just split it\u00a0to\u00a0avoid all of\u00a0this. I\u2019ve even thought about reaching out through mutual friends, just to\u00a0explain myself.<\/em>really liked him, and part of\u00a0me\u00a0feels foolish for still caring\u00a0\u2014 to\u00a0the point where\u00a0I start thinking maybe\u00a0I should just stay single forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00a0went on\u00a0my\u00a0first date with a\u00a0guy from a\u00a0dating app. I\u00a0ordered everything\u00a0I wanted and ate way too much. When the bill came, he\u00a0suggested splitting\u00a0it. I\u00a0said, \u201cNo. You invited\u00a0me. You&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":40170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":208,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40171,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40169\/revisions\/40171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}