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All right, let's cut to it. Dear Jordan in the 21st century. It's hard to know who is supposed to do what? For example, who pays when we go out on a date?

I want to be a man and take charge, but I also don't want to have to foot the bill every time I go out. So what do I do? Signed confused.

Hey confused. You'll be surprised at how simple this is. Here's how it breaks down. Basically you always pay on the first date.

If you ask her out and if it's a special occasion like her birthday Valentine's Day doesn't matter. She pays if she asked you out

If it's your birthday or if she insists. It's not worth fighting over in the last case

You split the bill if you're a regular couple or if you're buying something together like a weekend vacation or a wedding gift

And I hope this clears things up. Yes, it's a little bit too cut and dry. Maybe there's some people who disagree. I play by these simple rules and it's never failed.

Now remember these are American rules. So if you're listening to this and you're in Germany and you're like

But that's not how we'll go here. Yeah, I know that but we're assuming that you're in North America. How's that?

Dear Jordan, when is the right time to bring my girl home to meet my family?

I kind of want everyone to meet her over the holidays, but I'm not sure if we've been together long enough.

What's your take on the question? Signed clueless in Cleveland.

Hey clueless, really the right time to bring your girl home to meet your family is pretty much whenever you think that it's right.

There's no real guideline here. It depends on your culture, of course, but in my sort of Midwestern normal white American guy culture

There's no real guidelines at all. If things are serious and you see them going to the next level

That's the time to bring her home and meet the family. If on the other hand, you think it's a more casual thing

There's no need to bring her home no matter how long you two have been seeing each other. It's more about how deep things are than how long they are.

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