I'm talking here about a friendship, and a friendship that I have had since primary school, so about 45years. We had been through life losing contact at times, but are very close again now. I do value her friendship.
I just want to ask how people are about bill splitting? I am happy to cover my side of everything, but I find that it is me picking up the bill too often. So I'll buy first drinks (£24 - London). She'll buy a round. Then I buy another. Then we go home, So I end up paying out nearly £50 for four drinks, and she pays out £24 for two. This isn't an isolated case, and the scenario is boringly monotonous.
Last week she came for drinks at my house. She was dropped off by her hubby, and arrived empty handed. Not the first time. We had a bottle of champagne (a birthday gift from another friend) that was in the wine rack, and the best part of a bottle of SB. That I had bought.
I'm going to touch on our finances, and different states. Sometimes she say that she's broke. She owns AirB&B properties, a business, a brand new top quality German car. She goes on foreign trips sometimes in excess of 3 times a year, long haul. I, meanwhile, do not. I have a night out once or twice a month..
I just wondered what people's thought were, apart from the fact that I'm perhaps being a bit of a mug?