OP:”There was a case recently where a girl insisted on cutting a date short because she didnt want the boy to miss Mincha-Maariv(yes, she liked him and it was their second date and she is still not married, lol)”
It might have been me. Once when I was on a date, I told the guy I had to daven Mincha. I didn’t mean that the date had to be cut short. All I meant was that I was going to take 5 minutes to go to the corner to daven.
He didn’t know that girls are chayiv in Mincha, so he assumed that I was reminding him to daven Mincha, and that that meant I wanted the date cut short. When he finally figured out that I was talking about myself, he was shocked that I daven Mincha. He seemed to think I was a feminist or something.
On second thought, I didn’t like him, and I think it was a first date, so I guess it wasn’t me.