My current fiance said she almost didn’t want to go on a second date with me because I wanted to go Dutch on our first date. She still tells me to this day that I’m lucky I was cute.
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ThunderclapSasquatch@startrek.website 5 months agoA lot of women consider it a deal breaker to this day
Furbag@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Pieplup@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
what does go dutch mean
Furbag@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Date pays for their stuff, you pay for your own. Basically, separate tabs.
To be clear, I would have paid if she had asked me to at the time. When the bill came for the food, I asked if she wanted separate or together, but my phrasing made it sound like I wanted to split it and she said that was fine. Whoops.
Don’t worry, she’s making up for lost time. I pay for almost everything when we go out now 😅
Pieplup@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Humans are weird. I’m glad we penguins aren’t as complicated.
Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I call those women… never. Had a girl turn up with a friend, everyone paid for their own drinks. And this was in the early 00s.
TheDoozer@lemmy.world 5 months ago
If I remember correctly (it’s been over 16 years), my wife suggested separate checks the first time, and I told her I’d pay this time and she could get the next one if she wanted to go out again.
I think I still ended up paying for the next one (or separate checks), but that wasn’t a cultural norm thing, I just get uncomfortable with other people paying for me.