Bible_Belt said:
Small thoughtful gifts are ok, in my opinion. Expensive is bad.
is this woman divorced or is she an unwed mother? And where's the baby's dad?
She's divorced. Baby Daddy is watching the baby tonight. He's a giant afc as well, asks her to marry him all the time.
Then you know this is a pattern, right? I wouldn't invest much in her unless you see a diamond in the rough ie that she just might turn her life around and make something of herself. And that's only if you are developing feelings for her. There's several indications of this. One of the biggest is that in your thread title you call her your "girlfriend" then in the first sentence of your OP you reduce her to just a "plate". It's almost as if you know that your feelings for her are getting stronger but you don't quite feel right about it. To be honest I think you
DO have feelings for this girl, that's one of the reasons why you posted the thread in the first place. And I know that because 1.) you even admitted that her seeing that other guy tonight when you planned to take her out got you POd, and 2.) You've even given her some praise about being smart and attractive which is why I used the diamond in the rough metaphor.
You've got to figure out what you really want out of this relationship. Is it just the sex and spending some time together? Or do you have deeper feelings for her? Since she's got "King AFC" buying her stuff and her ex is also an AFC as far as you know, then she might really want that. And that would mean that she already knows what
SHE wants and she's manipulating you for her own means. And yeah, you mentioned already that you know she's a manipulator.
The bottom line is, if you really do have feelings for her, are you hoping that she'll drop the AFCs for you and clean up her act? Because if she has a pattern of having AFCs in her life and getting gifts from them she might think she either sees some of it in you-and don't take it the wrong way, I'm saying it as an honest opinion to help you out- OR she could be looking for the right AFC to marry (or at least have an LTR with) and then dump you.
Figure out what your feelings for her really are and what you want out of this.