I Finally Met My Girlfriend’s Family and a $400 Dinner Revealed a Truth I Could Not Ignore

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Four hundred dollars.

 

She looked at me expectantly.

 

As if this had always been understood.

 

When I quietly said I was not comfortable paying for everyone, her expression changed instantly.

 

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Surprise turned to irritation.

 

I was told this was what family did.

 

That I was embarrassing her.

 

Her relatives stared at me in silence.

 

The table felt colder by the second.

 

Ezoic

 

That was when the truth became clear.

 

Ezoic

 

They were not there to meet me.