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First thing a foreigner tells his 18 year old kid. Get a job!

First thing a foreigner tells his 18 year old girlfriend. Here's your allowance!

 

Let the girls do the comparing of their *allowance* if they want but the good girls won't be doing so at least not unless a closer friend. But sure, its an allowance but more so because everyone should have a bit of pocket money to do what they want with be buying some cool guy toy or a cute dress she really doesn't *need*. I'm sure we all know what its like having NO money in your wallet and living day to day just hoping that the next day things are still taken care of and its NOT a fun feeling.

However I don't see a point of us foreigners going and saying *I give my girl X amount every week/month/time she performs anal... or such nonsense. Giving more or less doesn't make us a better foreigner or a worse foreigner and her receiving more/less doesn't mean she is a better or worse SO. All that matters is knowing your gal and making sure she is taken care of be it for that 2 hour hotel stay or the entire month she is with you. Allowance is showing you care about her having some form of financial freedom but how much is right/wrong depends on the foreigner and the gal and no two situations may be the same.

Now how much to give *if* that were the question. That all depends on her needs and what the foreigner provides otherwise. I've seen a couple foreigners who don't pay their gals meals when dining out and expect her to cover it from their allowance and others who don't buy their gal cloths and expect that out of the allowance. Then I've seen those who pretty much buy their gal all their needs and a fair amount of their wants as long as not insane. Each to their own after all.

Nuff Said.

 

The fact of the matter is the majority of girls in the PI are both pressured by their families to get money from their foreigner guy and also feel a responsibility to help their families if they don't have a job. I don't see that as a form of prostitution, more of one of necessity. Who are we to think those cute young chicks like us old farts for our looks. Get real.
There are no free lunches.

 

1 - How many pisos do you give your SO a month for other than household expenses?

p6600

2 - How often do you give your SO that amount?

Every month.

3 - How many others (kids, relatives, the milkman, etc.) get a cut of the allowance?

One kid in college.

4 - Does your SO live with you full time?

No, only 5 days a week, she's with the kid on weekends.

5 - Does your SO provide any financial support to the household expenses?

Nothing to date.

6 - How long have you been together?

About 5 years.

7 - Are you happy with this arrangement?

Not particularly.

 

My wife has no 'allowance' per se. She's got a peso account and a dollar account with enough money to live for maybe 3 or 4 years in 'em. She's very good at budgeting money, so I don't worry about it too much.

She sends 'help' to her family as the situation arises. We might have sent 12-16k pesos this past year to her parents at various times.

She refuses help to all other members of her family, so far, but I've told her I have no problem helping the smarter ones with university costs.