Bre Avery Zacharski
“Well, honestly, it didn’t go great. It was painfully awkward,” she explained. “He asked via text if he should introduce himself as my boyfriend or play it cool, I said just be yourself and don’t overthink it.”
Within 2 minutes of Richard being at the party and meeting her friends, he jumped right into talking about politics, which everyone knows is majorly off-limits when being introduced to anyone new.
This really rubbed her the wrong way, and then Richard began speaking to Paul in Spanish. The thing is, Paul is completely Italian, not Spanish, and he speaks only English.
“Like Paul says something about his grandmother, and Richard knowingly chimes in with “ah, abuela,” and I am just checking out mentally at this point,” she said.
“Everything Paul says, Richard would add in a Spanish word for flair in his response. My other friends just kind of ignored him or played up how tired they were.”
“I gently was like, “Why are you speaking Spanish to him? He’s Italian,” on the off chance that it was a fluke and he didn’t know where he was from, but he came back with, “Oh no, tons of Italians speak Spanish too. He understands me.”
The night quickly ended after that, but she was so humiliated by Richard’s behavior in front of her friends.
The following morning, she and Richard went out to have breakfast together, but everything didn’t feel right.
Things were cumbersome between them, and she tried to say she had just had too many drinks the night before, even though that was a lie.
She’s left feeling worried and unsure if she really would like to pursue Richard after what went down at the party.
“I told my other friend about this, and she thinks I’m too harsh on him,” she continued. “I understand everyone has cringe moments, I certainly do, and I’m trying to recover my attraction to him because he has been really sweet, but what happened the other night combined with the fact it’s been only two weeks makes me really worried.”
