I just can't resist sharing some humor about the cost of love and or lust.
Some men are so cheap. In tough economic times, and no matter how many social advances women collectively around the world...chivalry must never die. Gentlemen, if you take a woman out to lunch or dinner and there's no preset agreement to "go dutch", aka you both pay equally for the bill, then expect to pay the bill. Unless of course she's a CEO for some billion dollar technology company and invited you to her company commissary. Even then, it can and should feel awkward to have the woman pay your way.
I remember hearing a story a few years back where a woman was having a bad time with her long time boyfriend, and decided to break up for a while. While she "ventured" she ran into an old male from her high school days and decided to get involved with him. Well, this rebound relationship didn't work out to well and it was over within a month.
When the moment of truth came to call off the relationship, the man in question accepted that the fling was indeed over. However, upon his exit from the discussion, he turned and cited some unpaid bills for lunch that she owed him. Basically he was asking her to pay him back for some quick lunch grabs from a fast food eatery like McDonald's...or so the story goes. Either way he deserves a definite slap on the back of his neck for doing so.
From the time we men are young boys, we always know that we have to spend some money to attract and affirm the attention of the female we're focusing our amorous feelings on. In the early teen years we even ask our parents (or other caregiver) to provide us with some extra spending money so that we can make a nice impression on that woman. As we mature, and come into our own, making our own money, it's all pretty much the same. We "give" in order to hopefully receive. The only thing that really changes this formula is when the woman in question is needy and greedy and is just using the man to obtain monetary things. Her side of the relationship is absent of love of any kind, and trading in her body for materialistic things is in full swing.
All of that being said...once the relationship is over...it is over. For a man to go back and try to bill a woman for meals...is pretty ridiculous. And to answer your question about the guy above - no they didn't "go dutch". What this guy was thinking, I'll never know. But I do know that he made it a little harder for the rest of us men. Do we now have to negotiate a payment plan when we take a woman of our interest out to dinner? Are there food values placed on a good night kiss? How much does a turkey dinner get you as opposed to a breakfast sandwich? How much does she have to eat for you to earn a walk up to her to her apartment door? Does prime rib automatically get you sex? Better yet, does she split the gas bill if you pick her up and drop her off? Oh brother. It goes on and on.
Have a little bit more chivalry gentlemen. Love and lust are not cheap.
Some men are so cheap. In tough economic times, and no matter how many social advances women collectively around the world...chivalry must never die. Gentlemen, if you take a woman out to lunch or dinner and there's no preset agreement to "go dutch", aka you both pay equally for the bill, then expect to pay the bill. Unless of course she's a CEO for some billion dollar technology company and invited you to her company commissary. Even then, it can and should feel awkward to have the woman pay your way.
I remember hearing a story a few years back where a woman was having a bad time with her long time boyfriend, and decided to break up for a while. While she "ventured" she ran into an old male from her high school days and decided to get involved with him. Well, this rebound relationship didn't work out to well and it was over within a month.
When the moment of truth came to call off the relationship, the man in question accepted that the fling was indeed over. However, upon his exit from the discussion, he turned and cited some unpaid bills for lunch that she owed him. Basically he was asking her to pay him back for some quick lunch grabs from a fast food eatery like McDonald's...or so the story goes. Either way he deserves a definite slap on the back of his neck for doing so.
From the time we men are young boys, we always know that we have to spend some money to attract and affirm the attention of the female we're focusing our amorous feelings on. In the early teen years we even ask our parents (or other caregiver) to provide us with some extra spending money so that we can make a nice impression on that woman. As we mature, and come into our own, making our own money, it's all pretty much the same. We "give" in order to hopefully receive. The only thing that really changes this formula is when the woman in question is needy and greedy and is just using the man to obtain monetary things. Her side of the relationship is absent of love of any kind, and trading in her body for materialistic things is in full swing.
All of that being said...once the relationship is over...it is over. For a man to go back and try to bill a woman for meals...is pretty ridiculous. And to answer your question about the guy above - no they didn't "go dutch". What this guy was thinking, I'll never know. But I do know that he made it a little harder for the rest of us men. Do we now have to negotiate a payment plan when we take a woman of our interest out to dinner? Are there food values placed on a good night kiss? How much does a turkey dinner get you as opposed to a breakfast sandwich? How much does she have to eat for you to earn a walk up to her to her apartment door? Does prime rib automatically get you sex? Better yet, does she split the gas bill if you pick her up and drop her off? Oh brother. It goes on and on.
Have a little bit more chivalry gentlemen. Love and lust are not cheap.
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