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From: beth@gymble.UUCP (Beth Katz)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: paying for meals
Message-ID: <130@gymble.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 31-Mar-85 10:08:05 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar 31 10:08:05 1985
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Reply-To: beth@gymble.UUCP (Beth Katz)
Organization: U of Maryland, Laboratory for Parallel Computation, C.P., MD
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Summary: 

Jorge Gustavson writes
>When I was steadily "dating" (Yuck! what a dumb word) my last heavy-duty,
>we split the price of our outings according to a principle known as "income
>differential".  She made about $18,000/yr and I made about $32,000/yr.  Our
>tabs were split so that she paid about 35% and I paid about 65%.  In this 
>way, we did NOT establish anyone as "provider", addressed the socio-economic
>issues concerning comparable pay, and never had to fight about money!!!

David and I have a pretty skewed income differential (he earns about 5 times
what I do).  We still try to split things 50-50.  He sometimes pays for extra
things, but we don't feel comfortable with him paying for everything.  He seems
to round things in my favor, though.  I suppose if we wanted to go out to eat
a lot, I wouldn't be able to afford it, so he would pay more, but so far we
seem to do okay this way.  The biggest problem is phone bills, but he says
that if he paid the phone bill, I would have no incentive to hang up. :-)
I guess he hasn't learned to spend all that money he's earning.  He still
lives like a grad student, so we still split the bills 50-50.  I think the
important thing is finding some arrangement you both think is fair.
					Beth Katz
					{seismo,allegra}!umcp-cs!beth