Just Ask Georgia: 12/18/2024

Georgia, I have a question,

What’s the protocol for picking up the check when a couple dines with a single person?

When visiting our daughter for the holidays, my husband and I went out to dinner with her, her boyfriend, and her boyfriend’s mother. The mother is a single parent, and we have met her a few times.

My husband and I paid for the meal, which he thought was the polite thing to do. However, I disagree, as the boyfriend’s mother is loaded! She has pearls and furs and smells of Christian Dior. Why should we have to pony up for her meal when she knows she makes twice my husband’s salary?...