This is insanity. If you cannot abide by a partner touching a leaf using a utensil that is also being touched by a friend of theirs, you are absolutely entralled in a nasty possessiveness.
Pearl-clutching when my partner acts in a friendly way, that could be misconstrued as "flirting" by strangers, is a direct path towards controlling, obsessive, and cruel behavior.
Further, it's a deeply anti-social, myopic poison which sees helpfulness--much less kindness--towards another human-in such a firmly transactional frame. Helping someone separate layers of food with their utensils can be understood as flirting, but only after you have decided to completely turn your back to the rest of the world.
That this mundane, most boring of "events", cannot simply be what it is, is fantasy. It is a cold delusion to believe that such a basic offering of help MUST have ulterior motives!
Have you been shown such unkindness?
How much must you hate your fellow man?
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