In today's Dear Annie column, Annie Lane shares her thoughts on a woman's boyfriend putting her on-the-spot with an uncomfortable request.
While she has no problems with her boyfriend's female co-worker, today's reader tells Annie Lane she didn't appreciate him asking her to watch the other woman's kids while they were all at lunch together.Dear Annie: My boyfriend of five months has a female co-worker, “Leslie,” who he has known and been close to for five years. She is also a single parent of two kids under 10.
Last week, he asked me to meet him at his work so the two of us could go to lunch. When I got there, Leslie was in a panic because her sitter was sick and needed to go home. Leslie was trying everyone she knew who could babysit. I said no. I apologized to Leslie but said for several reasons, I was not willing to do this. My boyfriend couldn’t understand why I wasn’t willing to help her out.
Dear Right: Yes, you are correct that putting you on the spot to babysit his co-worker’s children when you were supposed to have lunch was inconsiderate. With that being said, remember that a good relationship isn’t really looking to blame the other person but rather to compromise. If you didn’t have anything to do, and this single mom was in a pinch, then yes, it would have been really kind of you to help out with her children. But you are right that putting you on the spot was wrong.
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