What is "On the Hook"?

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Ok, I am so freakin' naive sometimes. My daughter just alerted me as to what this means and I thought I would share this with all of you. Because I see it happen a lot and have always misinterpreted it. It happened to me for the first time and I feel like such an idiot for being duped. It was so classic.

Can you give me your definition? I would really like to understand it and not only how to spot it, but how the heck to get out of it. With some dignity.

To me, saying someone is "On the hook" for "x" means that person is responsible for whatever "x" is. Usually, though not always, this is said in the context of payment.

For example: 'John is on the hook for tonight's dinner' means 'John is responsible for paying for tonight's dinner'

Consider the context.

Hope this helps...

~CGKIngs317

I'll wait for someone else to explain, because I have no idea.

See this is why I was confused...my daughter says it is when someone likes you and hangs around you, they call you all the time. They act like it's a relationship, but it really isn't. They never talk about it, don't want to define it. Basically leading you on for a long time, even having sex with you and doing normal relationship stuff. This is my newly born understanding of it. I wish someone would give me a better idea how to define it and see it. With an aspie it is hard to see because aspie's don't like to go a lot of public places anyway.
I am sure a ton of people here want to know as well.

Not sure if I really want to know.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.p ... the%20hook

Now I'm even MORE confused, haha.

I would say the urban dictionary definition is wrong, at least, for my part of the world. Here, "on the hook" just means you are liable or responsible.

So I am right about one thing...it is a new term for leading someone on? That is if you are on the "dropping everything on a moments notice" side.

Kicking myself in the butt...soooo bad. What a fool I am. Time to look up that song.... "Everybody Plays the Fool" But you know something? I'll get over it. At least now it makes sense. I can file it away along with all my other life lessons. My pride is the only thing hurt. I was honest and open and tried to be good to him. He strung me along like a violin. This will never happen to me again.

Thank you Kinme, I appreciate the sympathy.

Now I know why women who are falling in love will run. This has never happened to me before. Usually I am a pretty good judge of whether or not someone genuinely cares. This time I slipped because I thought he had issues. I knew that something was "off". I tried to run several times and I couldn't figure out why. Both of us being aspies can make a girl crazy trying to understand and stay, especially if she is being played for a fool. I had dated so many men that wanted a relationship that I became too confident. I finally found someone I could care for (I hate to say it) for the rest of my life. But I couldn't understand why he didn't declare it. I blamed myself for not showing him how much I cared.

Ok...enough self pity, now that I understand the whole thing, I can put it and him behind me.

My first thought was "my coat". I was never good at that kind of thing. My husband spends half is time explaining things to keep from feeling stupid, but him having to explain it makes me feel stupid.