Ladies(guys can answer too), Do you think and expect a guy to always pay for the date ?

I haven't started dating yet but I would not expect the guy to pay for the whole date. Even if I accidentally forgot my purse or something I would make it up to him by paying the next time. I believe in gender equality so I ignore gender superiority and stereotypes. If two people are on a day, two people should split the cost.

However it would be nice just once for a guy to refuse to let me pay, and the other way around. I guess there's two different approached.

Good grief no! If it's early days and we'd meet up somewhere like a museum (yeah, I'm that boring) and we stopped for the obligatory coffee we'd each pay for ourselves. I want to be there to suss out what the man's like after all. If things progressed to bigger outings we'd split things like dinner, B&Bs and bike hire down the middle.

That said, there is a real pleasure in giving and it's ungracious to turn down a treat on a mere point of principle. For me the giving and receiving of gifts, be it events or items comes later, after there's a definite relationship (and you get a sense of each other). I don't keep score of who does what but would like to think that it's fairly equal if not always in money but in appropriateness and thoughtfulness.

I refuse to allow a guy to pay for me. I have always preferred to pay for myself, at least since I realized the practice of him paying came at a price. I think when a guy pays, he expects the girl to pay him in other ways (like sex) and I refuse to use sex as a commodity.

I would offer for myself. I know some girls who would say the guy should pay. Also some guys would offer to pay for the girl.

I think the one who ask should be the one who pays .I've been with my guy for awhile and he pays most of the time but I pay as well.its not all on him.when I'm paying I'm the one who ask him out .if you ask the girl out no I don't feel she should have to pay n you shouldn't expect her to pay. YOU ASKED HER OUT

Well no. When I was dating I offered to pay.

When my husband and I were dating he always paid. As a married couple, we have a joint account and regardless of who pays, it comes out of the same place so...