I don't find that obvious at all. I think you're projecting.
Alyssa: In the end it comes down to you. Perhaps I'm the one projecting now, but it reads to me like you don't have a problem with the proposed date, you have a problem with the feeling you're being manipulated and that if she manipulates you successfully she wins and you lose (somehow.)
If it was me, I'd go (but I've always been a risk-taker.) If I didn't go I'd spend the rest of my life wondering what might have happened. If I go, I find out and it's over in a few hours.