I was caught in a weak moment, I admit it.
An adorable girl in a bar, the kind that makes me weak in the knees, milked me for a couple of cocktails. Oh sure, she paused to spend the obligatory few minutes talking with me – standard procedure when a person buys someone a drink – but then disappeared into the crowd.
I had been throned, and I knew it. But I didn’t care. I had only casual friends at the bar, not anyone I was hanging with that particular night and I got to spend a few pleasant minutes with a cheerful person that otherwise would not have happened.
And it was most certainly not a relationship because no matter how cute or charming she was, I would not allow that to happen. I have my guard up about such things and am a pretty good judge of character, which is why I have never been throned in a relationship.
To be the victim of throning, you don’t necessarily have to have wealth or fame. It can be perceived wealth or fame that attracts people to you because they want to be associated with someone who has money, fame or influence. With PubClub.com, I do sometimes get people who ask if I am a famous influencer or rake in the money the way one does leaves in the fall. I may play it up a bit, depending on the person asking, but it’s nothing to build a relationship on and even if it were, I would not want it.
I tend to be very picky in my relationships, which is why I have not had all that many in my life. I don’t want to spend time with someone that I really don’t like and certainly don’t want to be involved with anyone who is more interested in themselves than me. As a result, I have had some very meaningful relationships. Heck, one girl I dated several years ago and I are still in touch, still hang out together and care very much for each others. So what happened, you ask? Well, I screwed up (and it was not from me fooling around; it was something different and pretty innocent if you ask me).
Now, I have certainly known many men who have dated gold diggers, as the term used to be called, and some are so swept up by it they can’t control it or just laugh because they are dating out of their league.
“She wants to get married,” a friend of the latter told me. “But I’m not going to do that because I don’t want to share all my money with her. So I bought her a BMW instead. 5 series.”
That’s being realistic about the situation.
But I won’t even go that far. For one thing, I don’t have anywhere near the money of that guy – he owns several real estate properties in Southern California – but I like depth in whom I’m dating rather than being in a shallow relationship. And there are ways to tell if you are being throned.
And what what throning is, a shallow relationship. But hey, if that’s your thing, go for it.
This story was written by a human with no assistance from AI or ChatGTP
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