Comment by marsah on pyrolynx71

@marsah good for you, but meeting up with someone alone is completely different from... hiring a guy who happens to be male. to work for you in a place where you're in charge and completely surrounded by people. 

i get what you're saying. if i told my man i'm meeting a guy alone, he'd say "ok, what time will you be home by? if you're not back by then and haven't contacted me i'll start looking for you". but the duke isn't shown as fearing for her safety. he's shown as annoyed that she's spending time with another man. this type of controlling behaviour isn't just normalised, it's portrayed as "sweet" or "cute". i give the author props for having the heroine get upset, but all these series portraying the male lead as being jealous of any man she talks to that he can't control are giving young girls the wrong idea about what to look for in a partner.