Woman with a PhD insists her 25-year-old date call her "Doctor Michelle" at all times: 'Is this normal when dating a Doctor?'

Is it normal to ask someone to call you "doctor" at all times?

Being a doctor of any kind is an accomplishment. You had to put in a lot of work and effort in order to earn that title, and you probably don't take it lightly. You're proud of yourself for having completed such an amazing feat, and you want to reap its full benefits. Perhaps in your work, you ask your clients and coworkers to call you by your title. After all, you've earned that right in a professional setting, and those titles can help clarify professional boundaries. But what about in your personal life? Do you extend that same boundary with the people in your life outside of work? That's the question that came up in this story from someone who was dating a woman who insisted on using that title at all times. 

In dating, you meet all sorts of people. They might be folks you would have never encountered in any other setting, but when you're looking for love, you find all sorts in your path. This is one of the fun things about dating. You get to know people and have access to their knowledge and quirks and eccentricities. Even if it isn't love, you probably learned something along the way. The young man in this story met someone who had a particularity that he had never encountered before. She never let him call her by her first name. It threw him for a loop, and he wasn't quite sure what to do about it.