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post 1619159941 10-12-2020, 12:37 PM
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Guys that live with GFs, how do you split bills?

Straight 50/50

As a ratio of take home pay

Or something else?

My income is about 2-3x hers so not sure what constitutes "fair"
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post 1619160001 10-12-2020, 12:37 PM
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equality is 50/50 boyo
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post 1619160091 10-12-2020, 12:39 PM
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we are pretty much 50/50 but we also earn damn near the same. my income fluctuates due to commission and bonuses so she covers the interim
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post 1619160101 10-12-2020, 12:39 PM
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Originally Posted By DrugsToGetBig
equality is 50/50 boyo
What if she cooks 7 days a week and does all the cleaning
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post 1619160131 10-12-2020, 12:39 PM
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i make probably close to 2x what my GF makes, but we split everything 50/50. And everyone is happy
post 1619160291 10-12-2020, 12:41 PM
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Originally Posted By LukeS1
What if she cooks 7 days a week and does all the cleaning
does she do laundry too? theres room to wiggle with then
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post 1619160461 10-12-2020, 12:42 PM
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Originally Posted By DrugsToGetBig
does she do laundry too? theres room to wiggle with then
She sure does, my chit stained undies end up clean and folded back in my drawer
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post 1619160491 10-12-2020, 12:43 PM
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Open a separate checking account that both of you put some $ amount in out of every paycheck that is enough to cover bills/rent/random joint expenses.
post 1619160611 10-12-2020, 12:44 PM
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Live alone now, but back then it was 50/50 (edit: might have been 60/40 for me. I'd round the numbers down for the etransfers) on rent and bills. Grocery I would buy all the animal products and vegetables. She'd get the breads, rice, snacks, etc.
For takeout it would be sometimes me, sometimes her, no fixed split.

Our incomes were similar, but I had more in the bank and less debt.
post 1619160651 10-12-2020, 12:44 PM
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Originally Posted By Born2Roam
Open a separate checking account that both of you put some $ amount in out of every paycheck that is enough to cover bills/rent/random joint expenses.
Yeh but what's the ratio brah
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post 1619160711 10-12-2020, 12:45 PM
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Question for you brahs, how many dates should you pay after the first one?
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post 1619160741 10-12-2020, 12:46 PM
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Originally Posted By LukeS1
Yeh but what's the ratio brah
$1:$1
post 1619160911 10-12-2020, 12:49 PM
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With just a GF I would say do 50-50

But wouldn't hurt to pick up food/gas/random small stuff to be nice if you make that much more.


But with Wife/Fiancee/long term partner i would pay proportional to income.

For example:
If you make triple then 75/25
If you make double then 66.6 / 33.3
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post 1619160971 10-12-2020, 12:50 PM
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post 1619160981 10-12-2020, 12:50 PM
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Originally Posted By LukeS1
What if she cooks 7 days a week and does all the cleaning
Not bad at all. This provides you with the ability to go out and crush life. If I had someone to cook/clean for me I'd pur all my energy into career maxing/income maxing/lifting heavy.

I reckon go 2:1 or 3:1 with her.
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post 1619161021 10-12-2020, 12:51 PM
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I make significantly more than my gf, but we still split rent 50-50 because she can easily afford that.

I would consider a split proportional to our incomes if 50% of rent was financially burdensome on my gf. But she makes 80k and can easily afford half of rent so why should I pay more than 50%?

Mind = blown some guys let their gf pay less than 50% of rent when they make good (or even great) salaries.
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post 1619161051 10-12-2020, 12:51 PM
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Girlfriend gives me set amount of every check.

I pay all the bills
post 1619161141 10-12-2020, 12:52 PM
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Originally Posted By LukeS1
What if she cooks 7 days a week and does all the cleaning
Who pays the bills and groceries?
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Originally Posted By Merc009
Question for you brahs, how many dates should you pay after the first one?
Alternate payment. She pays one date, you pay another.
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Originally Posted By LukeS1
Straight 50/50

As a ratio of take home pay

Or something else?

My income is about 2-3x hers so not sure what constitutes "fair"
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post 1619161321 10-12-2020, 12:54 PM
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Originally Posted By Vhagar
Girlfriend gives me set amount of every check.

I pay all the bills
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post 1619161481 10-12-2020, 12:55 PM
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I'm married and we trade off paying for our date meals. Still, after 3+ years of marriage.
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post 1619162201 10-12-2020, 01:04 PM
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Originally Posted By Rabbitjb
Why you with a poverty chick?
Its more that I'm a miscer so CEO 10k/day etc

Jk, but she earns £30k not bad for her age
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Imagine if your gf pays your way

How emasculating
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Its all the same money for my wife and I.

We run our lives off of a secured line of credit at a really low interest rate. It basically our current house and another property we just bought on it. . She pays for food, and day to day stuff, gas money, eating out, etc. and anything she has left over goes to the LOC.

My money goes directly to LOC, insurance for the house, boats and other power toys etc. I just drop my paychecks into the LOC and it gets paid off really quick.

And if I want to buy something I just do it and she rolls her eyes and is cool with it.
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The most I'd ever go is like 65/35 split, maybe 70/30 if I liked the girl a lot. But at some point you need to realize that you won't be paying the same amount. If you ever get serious like married, then the split is income based. If I was merely dating a chick, I might go like 60/40 because whoever is making less money would need to be saving up something. If you moved in with your GF though, that's pretty serious and I'd probably go slightly off income based. If she just wasn't working then we wouldn't be dating in the first place.
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I make around 4x as much as her. Joint chequing / savings accounts, investments are all in my account, bills come out of a single spot. I also manage all our finances and we’re both frugal af considering our household income, so it’s not a concern for me. But we’ve also been together for 14 years

All very transparent and both have access to everything but she doesn’t even need to look at it. Also have a separate account for my corporation but it’s basically just to flow through revenue etc
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When we were just BF/GF, we factored in several things to how we split bills. I commuted 1.5 hours one way to work and he literally drove 10 minutes down the street to work. I also cooked and did majority of cleaning. He made more money than me so we had more of a 70/30-60/40 split. We didn’t get joint bank accounts till we were married.
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When my wife and I were still dating she ended up moving in with me...just to see what she would do I didn't say a word about splitting bills...About 2 days later she mentioned splitting everything 50/50.. And at that time we both made 6 figures so it wasn't even really about the money , I just wanted to see what kind of person I was really dealing with
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Originally Posted By 1slo5oh
When my wife and I were still dating she ended up moving in with me...just to see what she would do I didn't say a word about splitting bills...About 2 days later she mentioned splitting everything 50/50.. And at that time we both made 6 figures so it wasn't even really about the money , I just wanted to see what kind of person I was really dealing with
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