I'm sorry you had this experience, Ossiana. I read an essay a while back on here also by Emm Witt about her experiences with sugar dating, and her overall experience seemed to sum up as: it's a bad deal for the woman. Sure, the guy provides money, but it's way less money than domming would bring in, for a much bigger time investment besides, and on top of that, the men she was meeting — since they got off on the idea of fancying themselves "wiser" on account of being more financially established — felt entitled to give her (shitty) life advice. I've even received offers in my DMs on IG like this: "I'll give you 2k€ a week if you'll take life advice from me." Like, dude, if your life advice is THAT shitty that you need to pay someone to take it, then please keep it to yourself.

Glad you made a good friend, though!