I am a reader, he is a gamer. I like to eat (reasonably) healthy, he is a junk food addict. What I am really struggling with is our money habits clashing. I am generous with my money. Maybe it is a fault. I like to be able to treat my friends every once in a while, and to be able to go out and buy something for someone cos I want to thank them. And so it is. I like to be able to take my boy out for dinner or shout him to a movie. I make no noise about how much it costs, as it is my pleasure to do so. But the boy... whoo boy. An example recently is that I mentioned to the boy awhile ago that it would be a nice coupley thing to do to have a *date night* just so we can enjoy some time to ourselves. Thats cool, thats fine. So the boy and I go out for dinner. My first choice for dinner was full, so we chose to go to another place that i knew had good food. The boy had announced it was 'his shout' which I thought was very sweet, as I know it doesn't happen very often due to us both being short on cash. So we rocked up to this place. Got inside and ordered. He joked about not having enough cash for the dinner, and I was thinking how glad I was i bought my wallet. We had our dinner, talked a little, flirted a little, then decided to head home. All up, it cost about $60 bucks. I cringed, knowing how much he hates to spend money, but he paid it. But within 10 minutes of getting home he is complaining about how he only has $40 bucks to last the week. How is a girl supposed to feel? I felt gratitude that the boy paid for dinner, whereas surely, I should not have to feel this? I should be able to go out for dinner and not hear about how expensive this is going to be and how poor this is going to make him. If it is so expensive why the bleep do we even bother? It doesn't make me feel love towards him. and then to top it all off he jokingly says, oh you 'll be grateful for this later *sleazy look*
*sigh*
maybe i am just overreacting.
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