If a guy I’m dating insists on paying when we go out, I’ll make dinner another time. Once after going out for dinner with a guy I was dating, we decided to get ice cream. I paid before he could. I still remember how uncomfortable he was at first. Then he acted like I’d just bought him a gold watch and thanked me several times for an ice cream cone! He wasn’t used to a woman treating him to anything and it made him feel special. I didn’t do it to prove something. I just wanted to show that I appreciated him.