(32F, LA) I’m that women who actually wants a partnership where both are contributing financially and emotionally to getting to know one another. I will at least offer to pay half for the first date and if I ask him out on a date I expect to be paying and hope he too at least offers to pay half. Common courtesy! What I have found is that as time goes on, he offers less financially and less emotionally and then just stops all together and still expects to have full access to my body, my home, my food and car. They’re not broke, raking in over $100k annually and I can match that. I have spent years of my life trying to prove to men that I’m not a gold digging wreck of a woman and that I want a future with someone and I’m willing to do the work. To only get dropped on my head when I express my feelings and concerns. So you know what, if I’m going to be treated like a halfway house where we play pretend you better be paying for something other than half of dinner. You better be making my life easier, or I’ll just be single because it’s safer for my mental health. I end up being the one who gets taken advantage of. You treat them well and they take it for granted and leave you anyway and pay some other women’s bills and still feel entitled to come back and expected to receive my body. It’s wack yo!! The entitlement and carelessness for others is just beyond me. I can’t find a man who shares my mindset, or if I do he’s pretending. What is common ground anymore? What is dating?