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Why some women are OK with men picking up the check on dinner dates
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-some-women-are-ok-with-men-picking-up-the-check-on-dinner-date ^ | DEC 17, 2018 | Leslie Albrecht

Posted on 12/17/2018 6:05:52 PM PST by Kenny Bania

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To: central_va
married foreplay: Wife gets me a beer.

afterglow: ...and a sammich.

61 posted on 12/17/2018 9:12:06 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: 21twelve
Figuring out a tip is easy.

Take 10% of the bill -- move the decimal point -- which shows how many cents -- one place to the *left*.

Now take half of that number.

Add the two together.

62 posted on 12/17/2018 9:14:23 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: atc23
“ Yes, yes that will be fine and the lady will just have water - no ice “

...now, just take her to dinner in Santa Barbara and order two straws...

63 posted on 12/17/2018 9:15:41 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Michael.SF.

Duh
What the hell woman wouldn’t want a man to pay ?
You’d have to be a real ugly feminist type


64 posted on 12/17/2018 9:16:17 PM PST by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: ScottinVA
Since when do “committed feminists” consider a male “husband material?”

When they get baby rabies, and want to get married, pop out a kid, and then take him to the cleaners in divorce court to take half his earnings until the kid turns 18.

I say, it'd be the equivalent of a guy getting to divorce a woman, and therefore severing himself from her financially, but she has to give him sexual favors for the next 18 years or lose her professional licenses and risk jail.

65 posted on 12/17/2018 9:18:28 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Larry Lucido
+1

The Czeck is in the male?

66 posted on 12/17/2018 9:20:01 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers

It’s even easier in WA state - tax is 10%. I just wish my wife didn’t always have to ask me. As I said, I’d rather just plead ignorance on how much money we spent.

Actually - it’s more like:

“So the tax is $6.43 - what would the tip be?”
“Hmm - give her $13.”
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Wait while she pulls out her phone.
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“It’s $12.86. I’ll just give her $13.”


67 posted on 12/17/2018 11:16:45 PM PST by 21twelve (!)
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To: caww

I know, jk jk


68 posted on 12/18/2018 12:16:18 AM PST by Trump_the_Evil_Left (FReeper formerly known as Enchante (registered Sept. 5, 2001), back from the wild....)
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To: rdcbn
Rage at the patrimony has its limits

I think you mean "patriarchy."

Regards,

69 posted on 12/18/2018 12:19:37 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: conejo99
Apart from everything else, if you invite someone to dinner and pick the restaurant yourself it is only fair that you pay. The women probably wasn’t going to spend that much on her meal otherwise.

But if the man doesn't extend the invitation, he ain't gettin' any date!

Regards,

70 posted on 12/18/2018 12:21:39 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I call this Snow blower Syndrome.

All the young women I know own snow blowers. They all are up at dawn snow blowing their properties.

One suggested that if I get a self propelled one, she would teach me how to use it.

As if I would ever want to.

I have the man who snow plows and shovels. I like seeing him and he operates in a sphere that I have no interest in. I have never done those jobs, although perhaps at one time I could have.

There are spheres I do operate in and I operate well in, such as home making (people enter my home and relax and are made comfortable) and in my chosen profession.

I guess on the whole, I am saying that it is not mandatory to cross spheres. And there are those who choose not to do so.


71 posted on 12/18/2018 3:42:19 AM PST by Chickensoup (Never count on anyone, ever.)
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To: TheZMan
Same her - married 26+ years and do my best to never allow my wife to open her own door (even have her girlfriends trained - they know when I'm driving, they wait for me to get the doors)- she does sometimes treat me to dinner with our joint Visa though.....

First time I had a girls get feisty because I held her door was way back in 68 or 69 ... opened a door for a fellow student and she had a hissy fit so i assuaged her pea brain by telling her I was going to open the door so i could go through anyway, if she wanted, i would do that and let it close so she could open it herself....

72 posted on 12/18/2018 4:04:11 AM PST by trebb (Those who don't donate anything tend to be empty gasbags...no-value-added types)
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To: Kenny Bania
I am a lady with moral high standards. You will open doors for me, pick up the check and treat me ith utmost respect at all times- or don't call again, for you will be rejected.

There are plenty of desperate women out there (as well as tramps)

I am not one of them.

73 posted on 12/18/2018 6:59:27 AM PST by patriot08 (5th generation Texan-(girl type)FREEPER FRIENDS! SEE MY TEXAS HX BIO PAGE!)
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To: alexander_busek
yeah, autocorrect is not my friend
74 posted on 12/18/2018 7:29:42 AM PST by rdcbn
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To: Kenny Bania

I don’t think I”ve met that other 23%.


75 posted on 12/18/2018 7:40:48 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: central_va
"...married foreplay: Wife gets me a beer."

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How sad.

What do women want?? We constantly hear that from men.

It's simple: (for the vast majority of us) we want to be loved, appreciated- and a man who will be true to us.

Try telling your wife you love her. Don't just assume "that goes without saying". Tell us! for We need to hear it. It warms our hearts.

Show a little appreciation for the things we do.

"You look pretty', 'the house always looks nice', 'You're a good mother'-There's always something you can tell her you appreciate her for. We long to hear these things.

And though it may sound corny in this day and time; surprise her with flowers or a box or chocolates..'just because I love you')

Try it out, guys. See what a difference it makes in your marriage.

And by the way; don't think you can get away with cheating. Sooner or later we will just know

76 posted on 12/18/2018 8:02:40 AM PST by patriot08 (5th generation Texan-(girl type)FREEPER FRIENDS! SEE MY TEXAS HX BIO PAGE!)
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To: reasonisfaith

As said...not true.


77 posted on 12/18/2018 11:31:54 AM PST by caww
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To: TheZMan

I’ve been so fortunate to know men who understand there’s true reasons females and males differ as they do and how wonderful they balance one another... God knew exactly what He was doing!


78 posted on 12/18/2018 11:38:57 AM PST by caww
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To: patriot08
That works especially so for men I must say. A man is designed/wired to provide and ‘give’, he truly gets pleasure out of doing so.....when that is not appreciated he will shut down.....then woman start complaining about what they're not getting.

What a woman ‘gets’ is in direct proportion to her ‘understanding’ how men are wired.....and appreciating those differences between them.....many women today do not. I will also say that women need to stop thinking men can meet all their emotional needs.......they cannot.... There are certain things only other woman can do for another woman, just as "Iron sharpens iron" when men are together....so too women when they share and get together.

79 posted on 12/18/2018 11:45:53 AM PST by caww
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To: Michael.SF.

When I dated if she said Dutch treat and would not let me pay, I took her at her word, otherwise I always paid for dinner or movie tickets etc...


80 posted on 12/18/2018 1:33:10 PM PST by sarge83
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