He was just fine with your offer to pay for the 1st date.

Although you aren’t used to a guy accepting an offer from you to pay on a 1st date, there are guys who do.

They do exist, more than you realize.

In this day and age, there are men who will take you up on that offer, and much of it has to do with their worldview.

In a time where women have equal rights to men, and have the ability to earn an independent living, he believes that it doesn’t behoove him to pay for a 1st date.

He isn’t stuck on old traditions.

His worldview is totally evolved.

This isn’t the first time he has done this on a date.

In accepting your offer to pay for the 1st date, he is showing where he stands on chivalry.

Clearly, chivalry matters to you.

It doesn’t to him.

He sees you as an equal.

He is a modern day guy who believes that women are equal to him and have every right to bear the same responsibilities.

This is his worldview.

If it doesn’t jive with yours, you two won’t be a good match.

When you are someone who is more traditional in your approach to male and female relations, you are bound to clash with a man with an opposite worldview who is courting you.

What he demonstrated on the 1st date is just the beginning, as it is an important indication of what is coming in the foreseeable future.

Since you are traditional in your approach to male and female relations, there is more frustration in store for you in future interactions with him.

It isn’t out of the question that he takes on a more passive approach to how he courts you in the foreseeable future, where you are the one doing most of the calling and setting up of dates.

If you are bothered that he accepted your offer to pay for the 1st date, imagine how you will feel when he takes a step back and allows you to be the one initiating communication, setting up dates, and paying for a good amount of them.

A 1st date usually sets the stage for what to expect from someone moving forward.

This 1st date was not a one-off.

After all, this isn’t behavior you are used to from other men.

In the past, the men who have taken you out on 1st dates have paid for them, politely turning down your offer to pay.

The fact that this man didn’t do the same is not a fluke.

This is who he is.

Moving forward, this is who he is going to keep showing himself to be.

If anything, if you were to accept a 2nd date offer from him, he will see that as a stamp of approval from you.

A stamp of approval that you are accepting of his egalitarian approach to male and female relations, which will only make him double down.

This leads to that much more frustration for you.

As long as traditional roles matter to you, there won’t be any jelling between you two.

You have opposite worldviews on male and female roles in modern day society.

If tradition matters to you, this man isn’t the right match and you are better off moving on.