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When I first started dating my boyfriend nearly four years ago, I didn’t really think much of the fact that he’d picked up the tab in the wake of our first dinner date. Granted, we’d been friends for a while, so it felt more like a pizza-and-beer filled catch up than an awkward first get-to-know-you-while-avoiding-anything-that-could-make-me-look-ugly-like-spaghetti tryst for two. Fast forward four years later and now I pick up the dinner checks — not because he can’t afford it (because he can), but out of a sheer desire to fight the system that, quite literally fed me.
But do guys feel the same way? Do they want women to comp the first meal — or do they expect to go halvsies?
Turns out, they have no clue what to do.
“I wouldn’t let a girl pay.”
Josh, 33, says that it has nothing to do with old-world traditions and everything to do with being a gentleman. “I don’t think I’d ever let a girl pay, unless I was taking out a friend. On a date, I like paying. It’s a nice gesture. If I were a girl, I don’t think I’d go out again with a guy who expected me to pay on the first go around.”
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