Is AUTHOR wrong in the post ? POST : so i have known this guy for a couple years now. he originally found me on tinder and tracked me down on facebook through a mutual friend. i continued to deny him but one day a few months later agreed to go get food. i am definitely not attracted to him and the most that ever occurred was a hug, ONE TIME. 

every so often we would go get food (he always paid) and then i’d go home. on a couple occasions i went to his apartment and our dogs socialized, but again nothing more than a platonic hang out. occasionally though he would start venmo-ing me money. usually just like $25-50 here and there and it was generally out of the blue. 

fast forward to like 2018, we had a falling out and i blocked him on basically everything except text messages (although his # is deleted) and venmo. my birthday was just this week and he texted me happy birthday and if i wanted some money. i said “sure” and he sent me $50. no further texting.  today he asked about my dog. i told him he had passed away in november. boom - $500 venmo’ed to me. 

some of my friends think i am “taking advantage of him” but i have never asked for money. he seems to do it as like a power move thing. 

tl;dr: i accept money via venmo from a guy who i don’t have any interest in even at a friendship level. 