Green Flag / Red Flag · by Daan Bakker · 2026-10-30
He made a slideshow to ask me to be exclusive
Seeing a guy for two months (I'm 28F, Seoul). Last night he says he has "something to show me" and opens his laptop. It's a 9 slide presentation titled "Proposal: Us (Officially)". There was an agenda slide. There was a SWOT analysis. Under Weaknesses he wrote "I snore (being addressed)" and "Your mother has not met me yet." The last slide just said "Q&A" with a cat emoji.
I laughed so hard I cried and he looked kind of hurt for a second, then started laughing too. I said yes.
My coworkers think it's the most cringe thing they've ever heard. My sister thinks it's the cutest. Which flag am I living in
UPDATE: he sent me the file. It's saved as proposal_final_v3.pptx. There were THREE versions
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Amelia Hughes · 14 likes
my ex asked me to be exclusive by text with "so are we a thing or" and no question mark. please keep the powerpoint man
Bianca Santos · 11 likes
cringe flag. not red, not green, a new color
Valeria López · 0 likes
the cringe flag is a sub category of green flag tbh. cringe because he tried
Isha Menon · 10 likes
"I snore (being addressed)" is such a good line, he's self aware and has an action plan
Beatriz Sousa · 10 likes
he looked hurt for a second when you laughed. that's a real person putting himself out there. glad you said yes
Paolo Garcia · 0 likes
OP here "trip to Busan in spring" and "I learn to cook your mom's kimchi jjigae" 😂
Priya Nair · 5 likes
he's going for the mom on slide 4, smart man
Paolo Garcia · 5 likes
your coworkers are wrong, the cringe is the point. nobody makes slides for someone they don't care about
Mariana Costa · 2 likes
please ask him to present at your wedding. same format
Cedar Runner · 0 likes
proposal_final_v3 means he revised it twice. he cared about the deck 😭
Aarav Sharma · 4 likes
v1 probably had 20 slides and someone told him to cut it down
Isha Menon · 0 likes
a SWOT analysis of the relationship is the most consultant thing I've ever heard. green, cringe, but green