The 50/50 Bill TikTok Trend

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There’s a trend happening on TikTok at the moment where women tell their partners that they can’t afford their half of the mortgage this month.

The majority of the partners react by saying “you never contribute anyway/you don’t pay the mortgage”.

DH and I have always earned similar salaries, except for the last few years since having children, so we now split our mortgage and bills as a percentage.

So, AIBU to think most couples in the UK split things 50/50 or according to how much each of you earn, and if one person covers all the bills and this is just a weird American trend.

Why would they say they can't afford the mortgage if they dont pay it in the first place? I'm missing something I think

Couples organise their finances in the way that suits them best, i don't know if there are statistics on the various methods. It doesn't matter what anyone else does as long as everyone is happy with their own arrangements

@DreamW3aver It’s in the hope that the reaction would be funny, I guess, to get the content 🤷🏽‍♀️

I understand couples organise their finances however they want, but was just interested if it’s more of an American thing that men seem to cover all the bills.

Most married couples I know pool their money.

Tik Tok is just a platform for vacuous egotistical brain dead morons, who cares what they do?

This has been annoying me too. I thought this was a generational thing. My boomer parents were like this; dad worked, did nothing for the kids or house, just brought the money. Mum stayed at home, looked after the kids and house, and did all the life admin. Funnily enough when they eventually divorced, my dad is utterly useless at most things, and my mum did just fine.

I don’t know anyone of my generation (millennials) who lives like this as it’s impossible to afford. I guess exceptions would be if the highest earner was a very high earner and could afford everything on a single wage. But as I said, I don’t know anyone that’s not 50/50 (give or take depending on differences in wages).

Personally I’d hate to be vulnerable and give up my career and rely entirely on a man’s wage. It’s all good and well until the marriage goes tits up and he runs off with his bimbo secretary.

I have no idea but I would assume it's an American thing purely based on the fact that a lot of the population are religious and, by extension, "traditional". And also judging by the fact that every time I see a video of dads who can't remember their kids' birth dates there are thousands of comments below by blokes "yeah, but my wife doesn't know how to service a car or how much our insurance costs". Which is not something I hear from British blokes often.

The tik tok Trend doesn't represent an even spread of available options. You're going to get a higher number of people thinking it's funnier or more satisfying for want of a better word if the man says "but you never pay anyway" etc I bet all the comments are "that's a real man, he's a keeper, good man looking after the family" etcand they're mostly set up anyway 😅