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I (F45) was speaking with a (genx) man fairly recently, who during the course of our conversation said, "Oh! I see why you're single. You're too independent."

Wtf does that even mean?!

I've been sitting with this for a couple of weeks, and I honestly don't know what it actually means.

Any ideas? I'm genuinely asking.

UPDATE: Just talked to my boss. He's dropping them as clients, I'm getting paid for most of the hours I won't be getting this week (I was covering someone's vacation), and my boss must be a real feminist- he didn't question me AT ALL! Y'all! What a breath of fresh air from a man in a position of power. (my boss owns the company)

Thank y'all for all of the advice. I will be getting a Google number to give out, moving forward.

And because I'm seeing resolution, I'll go ahead and tell you, I'm a non-nursing hospice carer. I've had several clients since starting this job, and they've all been lovely.

I recently started a new job, after looking for months. I live in a rural area. I drive 60+ miles, one way, to get to my new work.

I don't want to give too many details, I do wanna be as anonymous as possible- so bear with me.

In my new profession, I deal with a lot of people. These people and their families have to have my personal cell phone. I had a person call me at midnight last night, to offer me money for sex. (1) I met them on Friday, (2) they are not my job, but they are in control of my job, (3) what the actual fuck?!

Why- literally, why, would a man think that after chatting briefly, that this is acceptable behavior? Nothing about my job has sex or sex adjacent work in the description.

I thought I'd get an apology text this morning, but instead, it was an address.

I tried calling my boss, despite the fact that just reporting this is going to get me reassigned and I'll lose about $500 of work...... but my boss didn't answer, so I sent a text asking for a call.

Anyone else *still* dealing with sexual harassment at our age?

And how would you deal with this?