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How much money do you spend on your girlfriend

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    #122
    Khannie
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 37,485 Mod ✭✭✭✭Khannie


    The Corinthian wrote: »
    TBH, paying someone to keep you company is a bit sad.

    Pfft. That's not what he was advocating.


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    #123
    The Corinthian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,777 ✭✭✭✭The Corinthian


    Khannie wrote: »
    Pfft. That's not what he was advocating.
    He is advocating sharing his resources (splitting his available funds for drink) with someone in return for their company. If he didn't presumably he would not have their company. What else can it be?


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    #124
    Khannie
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 37,485 Mod ✭✭✭✭Khannie


    Friends of mine have bought me pints when I've been broke rather than go to the pub on their own. Were they sad too?


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    #125
    The Corinthian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,777 ✭✭✭✭The Corinthian


    Khannie wrote: »
    Friends of mine have bought me pints when I've been broke rather than go to the pub on their own. Were they sad too?
    If you never repaid the favour, then yes they are sad.

    I don't think anyone is discussing paying for a woman who will get you back at a later date, only those who have no intention of ever getting you back beyond, at best, a token effort.


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    #126
    Time Magazine
    Registered Users Posts: 8,452 ✭✭✭Time Magazine


    The Corinthian wrote: »
    TBH, paying someone to keep you company is a bit sad.

    Of course it is. I'm focusing entirely on someone who's looking to maximise their utility in the homo-economicus manner though, which I think is a reasonable approximation to SLUSK's preferences. I'm explaining how paying someone to keep you company can be perfectly rational relative to keeping it all for yourself.


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    #127
    Greyfox
    Registered Users Posts: 3,728 ✭✭✭Greyfox


    Time Magazine wrote: »
    Of course it is. I'm explaining how paying someone to keep you company can be perfectly rational relative to keeping it all for yourself.

    Why would anybody be stupid enough to pay a women for her company when theirs loads of women out their that will go 50/50 or at least pay 40% of the time! If she doesn't find your company interesting enough to pay half then she's not worth more then 5 minutes of your time

    What I spend on my girlfriend is almost exactly the same as what she spends on me...and that's the way it should be!


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    #128
    Quality
    Registered Users Posts: 6,900 ✭✭✭Quality


    The Corinthian wrote: »
    TBH, paying someone to keep you company is a bit sad.


    I think it would be sadder to be drinking on your own.



    I often think about this topic.

    My Partner has never seen me short or begrudged giving me his last penny. If I was to give up work, he would support me and the children. He is a good provider to us.

    I only work part time, but he has never complained about me contributing less financially.


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    #129
    Khannie
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    Greyfox wrote: »
    What I spend on my girlfriend is almost exactly the same as what she spends on me...and that's the way it should be!

    What if she hasn't got the money? I have met plenty of interesting people who had none. I spent nearly 8 hours talking to a homeless guy on the street once. I bought him hot drinks and food. He couldn't afford them and the conversation was amazing. Well worth the (very small) cost.


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    #130
    trout
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    humberklog wrote: »
    Ah sure it seems a while ago that the OP is talking about paying for hookers so the scratch and sniff test should suffice (if he's not scratching and there's no peculiar bang off the tackle by now then he's good to go).

    It should be pointed out that some STD's don't have obvious or immediate physical symptoms ... http://www.avert.org/stds.htm

    Just reflecting on this one point, in isolation, saying nothing about the rest of this thread.


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    #131
    peckerhead
    Registered Users Posts: 3,379 ✭✭✭peckerhead


    Can't believe noone's posted this yet...:pac:

    financial_planning_the_car_is_cheaper.jpg


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    #132
    Kid Curry
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    Greyfox wrote: »
    What I spend on my girlfriend is almost exactly the same as what she spends on me...and that's the way it should be!

    Yes and we should all live on cup cake lane and pick daffodils and have world peace but unfortunately that's not the case in the majority of circumstances and those women who say they pay their way because they buy a drink every 5 rounds or pay for the ice cream in the cinema once in a while is BS.


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    #133
    MoodeRator
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    Ok, I have just read this all again,and yet STILL can't see any mention of this "lucky woman" actually showing or declaring any interest in the OP. Jusy akin to his love of money this all seems VERY one way traffic.
    I am now convinced the OP has not even spoken to the poor unsuspecting victim! Let alone had any kind of meaningful discussion.


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    #134
    Kinetic^
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    dolliemix wrote: »
    So are you looking for a prostitute or a girlfriend?

    Which will talk less?


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    #135
    Kimbot
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    I spend too much on my woman.... :P

    Look if you want to be tight and miserable OP then leave the girl alone. If she gives a cr@p about you then money is irrelevant!


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    #136
    Kimbot
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    Kinetic^ wrote: »
    Which will talk less?

    Assuming they are both Female then.................. neither of them!!


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    #137
    The Corinthian
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    Quality wrote: »
    I think it would be sadder to be drinking on your own.
    Actually, paying for company because you don't want to look like a sad git drinking on your own is actually sadder when you think on it.
    My Partner has never seen me short or begrudged giving me his last penny. If I was to give up work, he would support me and the children. He is a good provider to us.

    I only work part time, but he has never complained about me contributing less financially.
    Well that's kind of outside the remit of the discussion which is about dating or relationships that do not involve cohabitation or children.

    Add those to the mix and it is unlikely for each party to match each other financially, however that does not mean that they do not provide equal input into the relationship. For example, you may contribute less financially, but my guess is you probably make up for this in child care and housework.
    Khannie wrote: »
    What if she hasn't got the money? I have met plenty of interesting people who had none. I spent nearly 8 hours talking to a homeless guy on the street once. I bought him hot drinks and food. He couldn't afford them and the conversation was amazing. Well worth the (very small) cost.
    So it's really about charity work?


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    #138
    Time Magazine
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    Greyfox wrote: »
    Why would anybody be stupid enough to pay a women for her company when theirs loads of women out their that will go 50/50 or at least pay 40% of the time!
    Different strokes for different folks. With the utmost respect to SLUSK, it looks like he likes a different stroke.
    If she doesn't find your company interesting enough to pay half then she's not worth more then 5 minutes of your time
    I agree... to an extent. It's happened that I usually earn more than people I'm seeing. If they're a little tight for cash, I appreciate that €20 means a lot more to them than it does to me. Basically, I appreciate that not everybody has cash all the time, and I wouldn't dump somebody for that. The second they expect something though, they can join my 'previous experience' folder.
    What I spend on my girlfriend is almost exactly the same as what she spends on me...and that's the way it should be!
    I think you're focusing far too much on pure monetary equality here. If someone's a skint student and spends hours making me a birthday present instead of buying me a big voucher for HMV, I'm not going to complain. I'd probably way prefer something personal, anyway.


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    #139
    CDfm
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    dearg lady wrote: »
    There's a lot of people in here on their high horses with regards to prostitution.

    +++ 1 and the horses are very high

    I imagine a prostitution thread will start sometime. But of course one would never do that would one;)


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    #140
    browner85
    Registered Users Posts: 415 ✭✭browner85


    this thread is gas... "i might be getting a girlfriend"

    theres no set price on love!!!!!!!!!111


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    #141
    The Corinthian
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    browner85 wrote: »
    theres no set price on love!!!!!!!!!111
    He's talking about a girlfriend, not love.


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    #142
    PrettyBoy
    Registered Users Posts: 4,213 ✭✭✭PrettyBoy


    CDfm wrote: »
    I imagine a prostitution thread will start sometime.

    Here: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055849191


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    #143
    donfers
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    Time Magazine wrote: »
    I dunno about you SLUSK but when I really like a young lady, I'm happy to splash the cash. Let's ignore the paying-her-own-way thing, which usually happens at least to some extent.

    I think about these things in terms of pints of Guinness. A pint of Guinness is about €5 and suppose you've €50 in your pocket. Would you rather ten pints on yer own or five pints with a stunning and fascinating woman? No question that I'd go with the latter. Hey, I'd rather five pints with a mate than ten on my own. And as much as I like my buddies, once you're not watching football women are better company.


    The only reason she would be stunning and fascinating is if she did indeed knock back 5 pints of Guinness

    Leeching off you, smiling and giggling where appropriate, using you as her drinks ticket for the night = utterly precitable but if it makes BOTH parties feel better, sure why not let the transaction take place

    just be sure not to confuse it for anything else, because when the 50 euro is mere bronze coins in your pocket the smiling and giggling may stop sharpish

    don't call me bitter

    just call a bitter for me! You see I'm as bad as that Guinness woman:(


    on a serious note, although it hasn't really happened to me, there is an element of women out there who set about, actually willingly engage themselves on a mission to get free drinks from guys on a night out and only talk to drinkbuyer for that purpose...they bring out no money with them and will succeed as naive guys think she's actually interested

    As a guy I don't think I could do this, i'd hate the idea of talking to a woman I have no interest in/am not attacted to solely for the purpose of getting a free drink, smiling at her inane comments and flirting away when I don't feel a thing for her. It would just make me feel like such a fraud, it's almost psychopathic behaviour if you think about it.

    On the key issue

    I don't mind paying at all, especially if my partner earns less, has less money. There is nothing more distasteful than a couple arguing about money. If I really like the girl I don't value money so much for it to become an issue. Unless she is a leech of the worst kind (re. example above, me buying round after round all night, she goes to the bar and gets a drink for herself) and has money and continues to sponge again and again and again and doesn't even offer to pay, then I don't let it become an issue.


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    #144
    hunter164
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    TBH I spend loads on my gf. I don't even think about spending it on her, I love doing it. I prefer spending it on her than me.


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    #145
    humberklog
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    SLUSK wrote: »
    You are dead wrong about Swedish women, most of them are leeches. I have seen good men lose lots of money in divorces and the like here in Sweden. I will take this woman on a date next week it looks like. If I don't get what I want from her I will shut the door on relationships forever and go back to the prostitutes.


    Gotta agree here Slusk, Scandanavian women in my experience (3 short termers) are a fripping 'mare. Clingy and needy, of course this can't possibly go for all but it was just my experience...3 out 3 being an ever increasing pain in the butt.

    I'm sorry for the way your thread has turned on you Slusk, you pop the head out of your shell to air a concern (indeed a peculiar enough one, but even still) and it gets walloped off you with big rods of moral indignation. From being told to get counselling to taking a trip to the the vd clinic. Jayzuz it was money you were looking to save not spend .

    Y'know what Slusk, you ask a question "how much do you spend on the missus?". Hard to gauge for most I'd say as...well, it's not something most people keep tabs on. Then of course there's the swings and roundabouts form of economics that is pretty prevalent in most relationships.
    I would love to try and answer your question but the maths of it is just so complicated with so many additions and bells in the formula that I find it impossible to calculate in any way that would do the truth justice.

    On a by the by: 500 knickers would hardly get a round in in Sweden:pac:.


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    #146
    Quality
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    The Corinthian wrote: »
    Actually, paying for company because you don't want to look like a sad git drinking on your own is actually sadder when you think on it.

    He never said he didnt want to look like a sad git, he said he would prefer to have pints with a mate than on his own.
    Well that's kind of outside the remit of the discussion which is about dating or relationships that do not involve cohabitation or children.

    Add those to the mix and it is unlikely for each party to match each other financially, however that does not mean that they do not provide equal input into the relationship. For example, you may contribute less financially, but my guess is you probably make up for this in child care and housework.

    So it's really about charity work?

    Yes probably a bit outside the remit, but I am with my partner a long time now, We were not always cohabitating and did not always have kids, however back then he was always good natured and kind with his money.

    Had he been a tight git, who didn't want to spend money on me, bring me out for a drink or a meal when I had no cash or insited I go dutch on every night out, then I dont think I would be with him now.

    And also he was great for the gifts, not expensive but thoughtful. They definitely left an impression....


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    #147
    The Corinthian
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    Quality wrote: »
    He never said he didnt want to look like a sad git, he said he would prefer to have pints with a mate than on his own.
    Yes, which led to the accusation that paying for company was a bit sad.
    Yes probably a bit outside the remit, but I am with my partner a long time now, We were not always cohabitating and did not always have kids, however back then he was always good natured and kind with his money.

    Had he been a tight git, who didn't want to spend money on me, bring me out for a drink or a meal when I had no cash or insited I go dutch on every night out, then I dont think I would be with him now.

    And also he was great for the gifts, not expensive but thoughtful. They definitely left an impression....
    But this is the thing... did you never feel that his one-sided 'generosity' should be repaid? I don't mean with tokenism, but with a real effort for you not to be "a tight git"? Even if you did not have the same level of income, did you not think of finding a way to repay him, or did you - as regrettably happens all too often - feel that you were entitled to him spending money on you simply because you're a woman?


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    #148
    Kinetic^
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    jonny24ie wrote: »
    Assuming they are both Female then.................. neither of them!!

    No dice, I choose television.


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    #149
    OldGoat
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    Remember folk that we are here to argue the post and not to make judgements about the poster. Telling the OP to see a councillor simply because he has an attitude that does not conform with the norm (with regard to this topic) or querying him mental stability can be interperted as insulting.
    Stick to the topic, argue the post.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



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    #150
    The Corinthian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,777 ✭✭✭✭The Corinthian


    OldGoat wrote: »
    Remember folk that we are here to argue the post and not to make judgements about the poster. Telling the OP to see a councillor simply because he has an attitude that does not conform with the norm (with regard to this topic) or querying him mental stability can be interperted as insulting.
    Stick to the topic, argue the post.
    Well, I've actually defended the OP in so far as he has (inadvertently) highlighted an attitude of entitlement that does exist with some women - as further evidenced, IMHO, by Quality's lack of response to my own query as to her attitudes - and certainly there have been some horrendously moralistic and unwarranted attacks on him.

    Even so, I do think that he is taking a very extreme and nihilistic view which I don't believe is terribly healthy, and do think is fair to question - as long as it is not done so in a judgemental fashion.


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    #151
    OldGoat
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    The Corinthian wrote: »
    Even so, I do think that he is taking a very extreme and nihilistic view which I don't believe is terribly healthy, and do think is fair to question - as long as it is not done so in a judgemental fashion.
    The mental health of a poster is NOT the topic of discussion here.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



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