Relationship Rules Successful Couples Break
Splitting everything half and half
In the five years I’ve been with my boyfriend, we’ve both gone in and out of different financial situations. At the moment, mine is better, so if I want us to share an extra bottle of wine at dinner, I’ll pick it up. He would and has done the same for me. At one point, when you know you’ll conjoin money eventually, you don’t keep track of who pays for what. You just help out when you can.