Women nowadays seek to be more independant and want to seen as an equal.

Sure, if the girl is of equal age, she should also pay an equal share of the bill.

nothing wrong with that

they can have an equal part of the sidewalk.

i will take the front part and she can follow on the back part.

same with the car...

i will take the front seat, and she can sit in the trunk..........oops........i mean the back seat !

j/k

equal ??? I think there passing us up ...................)

You told me you were gonna pay when you invited me, you cheapskate.

Yeah... in my last journal I told about a 1,000,000 Thai Baht dinner next saturday... I asked a couple of female friends to join me there and proposed to split the bill, but none of them wants to... I wonder why... ? :-)

then I think it's time for me to buy new tele lenses... *drooling*

we care we share

amazes me how many times the words 'pay' and 'bill' have been said in this journal. i think this is why there are more lesbians today.

To me it's simple: He/she who has the greater amount of discretionary income, pays the greater share of the discretionary expenditures. Otherwise, by insisting on a 50-50 arrangement, the couple misses out on the opportunities falling outside the less affluent partner's discretionary budget. Life is too short to miss out on all that fun simply because of the application of some "egalitarian" or "liberated" rule for spending that only very rarely will be matched by equality of income. Having said that, I am very pleased I am with somoeone who values what we have and who in the best Buddhist tradition guards the patrimony of the family unit. In fact I have an exceedingly hard time getting her to buy for herself those things that I consider necessities but which she views as luxuries. Perhaps she is much the wiser in this regard, and in the meantime I sleep better at night. . .