Khane nailed it, but to expound on it further there is no "setup". The way it usually goes? She gets ticket or tires blow and she was just stressing the week before how she's cash strapped. I bail her out of both, no questions asked. She's ecstatic. She hasn't travelled anywhere outside the US/Mexico, and even then it was on the cheap. I take her to Thailand, she gets to ride elephants and see things she's never imagined. She's ecstatic. The list goes on-- you get the point. Yet at some point into the relationship I'm still paying for everything, planning everything, driving her everywhere we go, etc. I ask myself, "what am I getting out of this besides sex, because it seems I'm doing everything. I do all the traditional man stuff, but get none of the traditional female stuff in return". So yeah, at that point I'll usually make it an issue and ask them to start showing some appreciation beyond being a wallflower.. Like there was one girlfriend that would repeatedly point out that my undershirts had holes in them, and all that could go through my head is how I've been there emotionally for this chick with her workplace drama, and bailed her out of things to the tune of 3K over the last few months, yet she can't even think of picking me up some undershirts at the mall she at literally every fucking week"?
If some girlfriend had come along in my twenties when I was dead broke and stressing about rent/creditors, and not only cared about me but helped me financially, you can be damn well sure I'd feel appreciative and find ways to show it.. Many women just feel entitled these days..
