Money Moral Dilemma: How much should my partner pay towards our holiday?

SStitanic

I think you need to change your poverty mentality. At the end of the day you need to expand into happiness and not shrink into fear, fear just brings more fear, focus on poverty brings more poverty. Just throw caution to the wind and splurge on a fantastic holiday and enjoy it and stop counting pennies and looking for misery. 

The_Unready

JB50MSE said:

My partner and I pay for food 2/3 and 1/3 because he eats a lot more than me....

It's obviously your call but, crikey, I'm amazed by this. Perhaps it's just me, though, and this is actually quite normal.

PaulTee

Just have a joint account and it all comes out of this. My income is more than my wifes but it does not matter. We are a couple, i.e. a joint enterprise so a joint account seems sensible.

TELLIT01

I'm probably old fashioned but to me a couple simply share the costs.  End of story.

SultanPepper

if you are truly partners, you each pay what you can afford as it should effectively be coming from the same joint pot. 
I assume people in this sort of partnership dont remain together forever. either that or they change and adopt a shared married model

pollypenny

You don't consider your partner's daughter as part of your family, then?   🥴. 

Ath_Wat

The_Unready said:

JB50MSE said:

My partner and I pay for food 2/3 and 1/3 because he eats a lot more than me....

It's obviously your call but, crikey, I'm amazed by this. Perhaps it's just me, though, and this is actually quite normal.

It's not just you.  

gloriouslyhappy

If the teenager lives with you then 50/50 split on accommodation and he pays their flights while you pay yours is fair. If she doesn’t live with you then 2/3 to 1/3 split is fair. No good people going on about partners shouldn’t worry and just split down the middle, because it’s quite different with blended families and we’d need more info to judge properly.

dfleming3

Do you mean business partner?  This doesn't sound much like a romantic relationship.

Ath_Wat

SultanPepper said:

if you are truly partners, you each pay what you can afford as it should effectively be coming from the same joint pot. 
I assume people in this sort of partnership dont remain together forever. either that or they change and adopt a shared married model

Although if that was going to happen, you would think the point at which their now 16 month old daughter arrived would have been the time for it.