The Porsches...Carerras, Targas...tennis outfits were for the Audis...yep, I was the "girl".
He was so defensive, he had an idea of what I s/b, but my parents didn't raise a dummy. I was raised to be independent and not to lean on anyone for validation.
It was funny, when I went away to college, he would drive up every two weeks to see me...my mother called him, which I never knew, until we were M, and told him that I needed to finish my schooling and not convince me to come home. She said you can always get M, but you will never return to school; if you get D, where will you be w/o education? She was right....