One client recently asked me my status, & when I said I wasn’t married he kept pushing me to concede that I should before I got ‘old & past it’. Seriously. I’ve never asked a client before if he was married or about his personal life but I asked him, and he proudly declared ‘yes I am’, so I said ‘yes well then you are a great advert for it then are you?’ That shut him up.
Honestly, what bothers me about these questions/ interrogations is they don’t like the light being turned on them, so there is a touch of entitlement to it, like, their privacy should be respected but ours is up for grabs.