How much a year do you spend on keeping the wife happy? Gifts, restaurants, shopping etc - all the random stuff you don’t personally care about but just throw the money to keep the wife situation intact. Rough estimate.
Oof $10k/year? the poor wives of blind. Do you guys beat them and make them clean too?
The issue isn’t the day to day purchases. It’s the fact that your wife will want a lifestyle creep you don’t need. You’ll end up buying a house bigger than you need, buying furniture nicer than you need, going on vacations that aren’t as interesting to you and that are more expensive than you’d opt into. You’ll end up paying for a wedding way more expensive than you’d care about. The direct cost in terms of gifts and meals and such isn’t that bad.
My husband doesn’t spend a dime on me 😭
Once you have a family your biggest expense won’t be trivial gifts but a big SFH in a good school district and tons of extra activities for your kids
Quit being a puss and give your wife the spending budget, she isn’t asking for much
Like $1k per year
No wife then?
Or they just know that keeping a partner happy is about more than just spending money on them