If dating feels like a financial sink-hole for you then you must be like every other guy on the planet. Because for some reason, it’s seen as part and parcel of the human mating dance that men have to go to the poorhouse in order to land a mate.
It makes hooking up especially hard in modern times when the economy is on a cliff’s edge and most guys’ finances are already in a rockslide halfway to hitting bottom as it is. Try to compete in the dating arena and the average man might as well sign away his retirement to get a girl to go out with him.
Men pay for:
- dinners
- drinks
- cab fare
- shows/concerts/entertainment
- flowers/gifts
And even in today’s liberated culture, it’s a rare event to find the woman buying the man gifts and taking the man out, all expenses included. What gives? And how to get out of this vicious self-defeating pattern?
Half the single guys on the scene feel obligated to pay for all the various and sundry components of dating women. The other half feel compelled to do it – as it is considered their responsibility, after all, to show her a good time. Fail to do that, and you won’t be seeing her for a second or third date; you’ll be seeing her out with some other more monetarily-endowed poor slob.
The dirty truth is that men pay for nearly everything on a date and in a relationship because they feel that they must. They have to keep footing the bill or else risk losing any opportunity of companionship and sexual satisfaction at all.
Is that to say they’re buying their women’s attention? If it is, it’s only because the women are selling it. And not at a discount either.
