I’d been seeing her for about six months, so I thought I’d give her the princess treatment for her birthday. I rented out an entire restaurant and celebrated with her, but somehow that may have been what prompted her to cut ties with me. I’m honestly baffled. What happened? Did it scare her off? (By any chance, has anyone given you feedback about this?)

I’m columnist Saito♪ Yeah, I know what you mean. I’ve had a similar experience myself, so I completely understand why you’re left stunned and bewildered. - She may have originally been thinking about ending things, but because he kept spending more and more money on her, she might have thought, “This is getting bad… I really need to cut things off.” But I’m sure you felt that it wasn’t really like that at all! That’s exactly how it was for me, too… Sometimes the world is full of truly baffling things, but try to take it as a transactional relationship and move on to the next person. Even now, whenever I see her actively posting on Instagram and looking perfectly fine, I find myself wondering about it.