(January 14, 2022, 5:35 pm)alexgraves Good to hear the conversation went well. I can definitely get the careful/hesitation about point 4 and it is 100% something I worried about in the past. I don't want someone's mind to jump to the worst possible thing out of context which is why put so much effort into being able to explain my own motivations with empathy to what someone else might interpret them as.

Yes and I was hesitant to bring it up because I don’t want this forum to think I actually had that concern or every woman with no context would think that. I don’t. Truly. I just think it’s important to remind men especially that could be a concern, as it might the furthest thing from his mind and just to prevent any sorta misinterpretation if he doesn’t even realize she might have thought that. We don’t know what don’t know. And as women, we often have our guard up in certain regards when wading into new things