I didn’t get the sense that Nate is one of these guys that pretends to be a ‘nice guy’ just to get with a woman. He’s a guy that was in a position to help someone that he liked, where the alternative would’ve been to not help. It’s a tricky situation, and he was definitely wrong to ask her out while she was staying with him. In addition, Alex was bang-on when she replied that the problem was it wouldn’t be a relationship of equals. He asks her to leave because given that he’s interested in her, he doesn’t want to babysit her child while she is sleeping with Sean. Strictly speaking it’s accurate to say that his help comes with strings attached, but it’s also an understandable attitude on his part. Her status as someone with nowhere to go became ambiguous and he didn’t want to end up getting used. In the end, he still left her with the car which indicates a sincere desire to help.
If you’re gonna’ hate on anyone, it’s her father. All of his help was self-serving, and he was incapable of standing up for his daughter when it really came down to it. He was basically a coward that takes the ‘bros before hoes’ mentality to a completely new level.
As an aside, Erin Karpluk, who played the father’s wife, was completely wasted in the role.
