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How much money do you spend on your girlfriend

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    #92
    SlickRic
    Registered Users Posts: 36,141 ✭✭✭✭SlickRic


    SLUSK wrote: »
    Why do you guys want to spend insane amounts of money per year on your girlfriend? Is it really worth it?

    it's the 21st Century.

    1) Girls are more independent than ever.

    2) Most will spend a fair amount of money on you too.

    3) I suggest you wait until you're at least 13 before getting a GF. you clearly have no idea about socialising, doing something for your other half because you want to give them a good time or make them happy, or just generally living in society with other people.

    it costs money.

    unlucky.


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    #93
    CDfm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,649 ✭✭✭✭CDfm


    argosy2006 wrote: »
    500 x 10 sounds about right,, i just hope she doesn't find out about your other 9 GF's

    Thats a bit mean.
    humberklog wrote: »
    Indeed CD, I think that there are cultural differences at work here, with a twist of foible. If counselling could sort such things out then the U.S would be carpet bombing Iraq with Dr. Anthony Clare clones.
    totally agree
    So Slusk to help us in our merry quest to figure out your positioning a couple of tidbits would be helpful: where are you originally from? where is your quarry from? and what would you be thinking this 500 snoots would be spent on?

    It made me think back to years back in recessionary times when at the cinema I overheard an exchange between a couple I know. " I ll get the tickets and you get the sweets" and a trip to the cinema was considered quite a respectable date and both people splashed their moneys and probably did not have much to splash.


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    #94
    PrettyBoy
    Registered Users Posts: 4,213 ✭✭✭PrettyBoy


    OP, have you ever had sex without paying for it?

    The way you are talking about your experiences with prostitutes is seriously worrying. It's as if you're saying that if this girl will cost you more than €500 a year you will stick to brazzers in Thailand. €500 wouldn't even cover your flights to Thailand in the first place. If you are willing to travel half-way around the world to pay for sex then, IMO, you a very sad individual.

    I genuinely feel sorry for this poor girl you're talking about and I hope she comes to her senses soon and starts running.


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    #95
    miss5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,319 ✭✭✭miss5


    PrettyBoy wrote: »
    OP, have you ever had sex without paying for it?

    The way you are talking about your experiences with prostitutes is seriously worrying. It's as if you're saying that if this girl will cost you more than €500 a year you will stick to brazzers in Thailand. €500 wouldn't even cover your flights to Thailand in the first place. If you are willing to travel half-way around the world to pay for sex then, IMO, you a very sad individual.

    I genuinely feel sorry for this poor girl you're talking about and I hope she comes to her senses soon and starts running.
    I completely agree,
    OP you are comparing having a girlfriend to paying prostitutes.
    Do you actually care about this girl at all?
    It doesn't sound like you have the maturity level to be in a relationship.


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    #96
    CDfm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,649 ✭✭✭✭CDfm


    PrettyBoy wrote: »
    OP, have you ever had sex without paying for it?

    I genuinely feel sorry for this poor girl you're talking about and I hope she comes to her senses soon and starts running.
    miss5 wrote: »
    I completely agree,
    OP you are comparing having a girlfriend to paying prostitutes.

    This is probably a different discussion on guys paying and sex.

    Some years back I met up with a Canadian ex colleague in Dublin City centre for drinks eats and general have a good time on his company expence account. He had gotten a great job with a company based in Berkely California.

    Here is what transpired -after a few hours -we had planned to go for eats to a certain named resterant. The girls hadnt paid for anything all evening. And one asked once food was mentioned where are we going. Quick as anything Gary said well me and CD are going some place that had been in the news cos Charlie Haughey used it and then on to some club where he and I were on the guest list to the VIP area .

    Anyway -he quickly made it clear that if the girls we joining us there would be sleepovers and he was very up front about it.

    So while in the context of this thread this is the other end of the spectrum -there seems to be a discussion about the amount of money being spent and the expectation of sex.


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    #97
    mood
    Registered Users Posts: 4,264 ✭✭✭mood


    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).

    Just very curious as to how the accounts break down into this 500 squids over the course of a year.

    Oh and Slusk, I wouldn't bother with the counselling suggestion. It takes all sorts to make the world go around and there's no need for society to try and iron out every blip. You're doing grand, bit over cautious fiscally perhaps but that ain't my business (nor your use of hookers).

    But what were you planning on splashing the, no doubt hard earned, moola on with this very, very, lucky lady?

    I hope your joking! There are STIs that have no symptoms at all so that fact that someone doesn't have a rash or smell doesn't mean they are clear.

    Also I'm sure prostitutes don't go to a STI clinic after sex with each client. Say they have two clients a night over a year, that could mean they sleep with 480 mean a year and might only get checked out every six months. I know I wouldn't like my chances!


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    #98
    mood
    Registered Users Posts: 4,264 ✭✭✭mood


    PrettyBoy wrote: »
    OP, have you ever had sex without paying for it?

    The way you are talking about your experiences with prostitutes is seriously worrying. It's as if you're saying that if this girl will cost you more than €500 a year you will stick to brazzers in Thailand. €500 wouldn't even cover your flights to Thailand in the first place. If you are willing to travel half-way around the world to pay for sex then, IMO, you a very sad individual.

    I genuinely feel sorry for this poor girl you're talking about and I hope she comes to her senses soon and starts running.

    Totally agree. Comparing this poor girl to prostitutes is not right or normal.


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    #99
    SLUSK
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,156 ✭✭✭SLUSK


    To answer your questions, I am a Swedish man. I lived in Ireland roughly 2,5 years but moved back to Sweden.


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    #100
    krudler
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    Cost of a girlfriend=€500 per year
    Cost of a Thai hooker=€10 a session

    finding out Thai hooker has a knob=priceless


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    #101
    star-pants
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    donfers wrote: »
    I disagree with most of that I am afraid.
    You can believe what you like and you're entitled to your opinion, however you are not entitled to say that I am lying.
    SLUSK wrote: »
    To answer your questions, I am a Swedish man. I lived in Ireland roughly 2,5 years but moved back to Sweden.
    I don't need to reiterate what I and others have said - if you want a girlfriend I'm sure you'll find one, if you want a prostitute I'm sure you can buy one.


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    #102
    krudler
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    SLUSK wrote: »
    How much money do you spend on your girlfriend on an annual basis? It looks like I might be getting a girlfriend but I'm worried that she will be a financial burden. How much should one expect to spend on a girlfriend?

    If it looks like it will be to expensive for me like if I'm expected to spend €500 on her annually I do not want her! :mad:

    I'm sure she wont want you once she learns your a tightarse who goes to hookers in Thailand for his jollies

    I cant figure out if the op is deluded or a troll, either way this thread is genius


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    #103
    mood
    Registered Users Posts: 4,264 ✭✭✭mood


    krudler wrote: »
    Cost of a girlfriend=€500 per year
    Cost of a Thai hooker=€10 a session

    finding out Thai hooker has a knob=priceless

    The best comment yet!


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    #104
    dearg lady
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,091 ✭✭✭dearg lady


    There's a lot of people in here on their high horses with regards to prostitution.


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    #105
    The Corinthian
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    SLUSK wrote: »
    To answer your questions, I am a Swedish man. I lived in Ireland roughly 2,5 years but moved back to Sweden.
    I can see where you're coming from. My experience of most Scandinavian women (one of my ex's is Swedish) is that they really don't understand why men should be bankrolling them as it's simply not done in Scandinavian countries where sexual equality is the norm. So I do think people are being rather moralistic an unfair to you here.

    I do think that being against shelling out for your girlfriend is not a good thing, however I also think that being against being the only one who is shelling out is quite justifiable. And that does happen and a lot more often that you would think.

    There are very few women who will literally never put their hands in their pockets, however it is not all that uncommon to find token reciprocation on the part of a woman who having paid for a single drink for every ten they've received, think that somehow this means they're paying their way.

    Relationships cost money, however the cost of a relationship is shared. If it is not and only one is realistically paying then TBH I do not see it any differently to prostitution, except that with prostitution you probably get better value for money.

    After all, if a woman is expecting the guy to foot 95% or all of the bills and he refuses to, what do you think happens? She'll consider him 'stingy' and move on. How exactly does that differ from refusing to pay a prostitute?


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    #106
    SLUSK
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,156 ✭✭✭SLUSK


    The Corinthian wrote: »
    I can see where you're coming from. My experience of most Scandinavian women (one of my ex's is Swedish) is that they really don't understand why men should be bankrolling them as it's simply not done in Scandinavian countries where sexual equality is the norm. So I do think people are being rather moralistic an unfair to you here.

    I do think that being against shelling out for your girlfriend is not a good thing, however I also think that being against being the only one who is shelling out is quite justifiable. And that does happen and a lot more often that you would think.

    There are very few women who will literally never put their hands in their pockets, however it is not all that uncommon to find token reciprocation on the part of a woman who having paid for a single drink for every ten they've received, think that somehow this means they're paying their way.

    Relationships cost money, however the cost of a relationship is shared. If it is not and only one is realistically paying then TBH I do not see it any differently to prostitution, except that with prostitution you probably get better value for money.

    After all, if a woman is expecting the guy to foot 95% or all of the bills and he refuses to, what do you think happens? She'll consider him 'stingy' and move on. How exactly does that differ from refusing to pay a prostitute?
    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.


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    #107
    dearg lady
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,091 ✭✭✭dearg lady


    SLUSK wrote: »
    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.

    I do hope you're kidding about this bit, ya can't judge all women by one woman.


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    #108
    SLUSK
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,156 ✭✭✭SLUSK


    dearg lady wrote: »
    I do hope you're kidding about this bit, ya can't judge all women by one woman.
    No I don't judge based on only one person but all my previous experiences did not work out at all. This is the last shot I am willing to give. After that I go back to something I know works for me.


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    #109
    mood
    Registered Users Posts: 4,264 ✭✭✭mood


    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.

    Women loose money in divorces as well. I've seen it! I have also seen guys sponge off girls. But I don't automatically (and wrongly) assume all guys are like this. OP you really have very strange views.


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    #110
    Kya1976
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,879 ✭✭✭Kya1976


    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.

    :rolleyes::rolleyes: I''m Swedish and I would certainly pay my own way when I'm in a relationship. And I didn't leech any money of my ex husband when I got divorced....

    Any statistics to back your statements up?

    Have to say this is one of the most entertaining thread I've read in a long time.


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    #111
    [Deleted User]
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    SLUSK wrote: »
    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.

    As per my previous post. Don't bother. Go back to your protitutes. You know what they cost, you know what you're getting in return. That's what you want. So why bother stringing any girl along. Leave the poor unfortunate woman alone. Because if she goes by your logic (of judging everyone by one person) she will end up a nun after your date.


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    #112
    Gyalist
    Registered Users Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭Gyalist


    In the words of the famous philosopher and relationships expert, Chris Rock -
    "Pussy costs money, dick is free."



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    #113
    The Corinthian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,777 ✭✭✭✭The Corinthian


    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.
    Not in my experience, but maybe I've been lucky with them.
    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.
    Wow, that's harsh. I've had pretty bad experiences in the past, but even I wouldn't be so nihilistic.


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    #114
    opinion guy
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    SLUSK wrote: »
    She looks pretty good and she seems nice so far. I want her but not if the price is too high.

    I didn't ask you to descibe her. I said what do you FEEL ?? THats whats missing from your posts - any feeligns at all.
    dearg lady wrote: »
    OT, but the suggestion that the OP is more likely to have an STD cos he slept with prostitutes does not sit well with me. I can't be sure, I don't have figures to justify my opinion, but my guess is sex workers would be even more diligent than your average person when it comes to contraception.
    They also have much higher exposure risk of getting something in the first place.

    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).?

    WRONG. Males can carry some STD's with no symptoms.
    dearg lady wrote: »
    There's a lot of people in here on their high horses with regards to prostitution.

    Please do enlighten us.
    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.

    Do you know Tiger Woods ?:D


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    #115
    OldGoat
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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).
    Scratch & Sniff test? Only way to be sure that you are not carrying any STD's is a trip to the clinic.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



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    #116
    krudler
    Registered Users Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    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).

    What about STD's with no symptoms? chlamydia and genial warts or the HPV virus to name two


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    #117
    rob_itb
    Registered Users Posts: 35 ✭rob_itb


    SLUSK wrote: »
    If it looks like it will be to expensive for me like if I'm expected to spend €500 on her annually I do not want her! :mad:

    It's all relative to age/how active the two of you are but I can tell you that it's alot higher than €500 a year in 95% of cases.


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    #118
    Time Magazine
    Registered Users Posts: 8,452 ✭✭✭Time Magazine


    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.


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    #119
    dolliemix
    Registered Users Posts: 4,048 ✭✭✭dolliemix


    I'm also still enjoying this thread. But jeez there sure are some paranoid mysoginistic men out there :eek::eek::eek: It is very scary the way some of the posters have a blanket opinion on women and their expectations.


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    #120
    Khannie
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 37,485 Mod ✭✭✭✭Khannie


    Time Magazine wrote: »
    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.

    +1. You're talking about a guy who's willing to have bleeding feet so that he can have an extra few quid in the bank though.


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    #121
    The Corinthian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,777 ✭✭✭✭The Corinthian


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


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