Why Your Girlfriend is Making You Broke

Being in a relationship may enrich your life, but it’s definitely doing no favors for your wallet. Find out where you’re spending the most money on your girl and plug those holes ASAP.

You’ve been dating for 6 months now and things are great - you’re hanging out regularly, your friends like her, her friends like you and, well, things are good. There’s one catch. You haven’t saved a penny in the last four months and you’re watching your credit card balance climb onward and upward like a balloon on parade day.

Your girlfriend is making you broke. But, how? And more importantly, how do you stop it? Let’s start with how you got here (here being the point where you start stuffing credit card statements into your sock drawer in order to hide from the shame):
She Wants to Go Out

It’s Friday. She wants to leave the house. Nothing too crazy, just meet a few friends for a drink or two at a local pub, maybe have a couple of appetizers and then retreat back home to watch a movie. Doesn’t seem like a big deal, right? Wrong.

Let’s break it down:

* Return Cab Fare* $20
* 3 Drinks for Two $50
* Appetizers $30

*The return cab fare is because you’re not the kind of jerk that drinks and then drives.

For a quiet night with friends you just blew $100. Do that once a week and you’re looking at $400 a month or $4800 a year. Don’t even get me started on full-blown dinners, the movies, big nights out or the tiny little extras like stopping on the way home for a fancy hot chocolate.

Even if you two are splitting the tab now and then, all that socializing can cause some serious damage to your wallet. One to two nights out a week can break you faster than you think.

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I saw this article today and I just thought that I needed to post it. I know that I have been absent from writing lately, a drunken trip to Ireland will do that, but I apologize.

I will be writing an update on the trip later today so keep checking the site. In the mean time check out the rest of the ways that your girlfriend is making you broke. i know I suffer from a few of these, but they are all worth it, I swear! (That is to keep me from sleeping alone this weekend!)