I’d never expect my wife to pay half the rent outside of an extremely narrow set of circumstances.
Because my career has more earning potential than hers, so we split things proportionally.
We don’t even split things. Our money goes into the same accounts. And from that we pay our bills and other expenses.
We have agreements to not go buying things we don’t need, and to not pay for superfluous services. And a softish budget we adhere to.
Splitting it sounds way too painful.
It depends how obsessed you are with it. For my wife and me it’s similar: both paychecks go into the same account, but we split off our pocket money into our own accounts accordingly - although I take a bigger sum in this proportion, if I don’t spend it it’ll just be transfered to an account that is play money for vacation, hobbies etc. And that happens idk every quarter or so
This comment is not meant to come off as judgemental, so I hope it doesn’t. I know that many other relationships function differently, but I cannot comprehend long term partners that do not want to combine everything. My partner is my partner, full stop, in all ways. There is no “splitting” because the money she earns and the money I earn is just our money. We budget together, we discuss purchases together, we shop together.
I swear there was one about couples doing this specifically
“go where?”
Bro, there’s always a line of other guys waiting.
Ah the ole 2 steps from prostitution tactic.
If they’re saying their sexual relationship is strictly contingent on having their housing paid for by that person… They’re 0 steps away.
No judgement. Sex work is work. But that’s what the transaction here is.
