Sacha
New member
Hello, I hope that you ladies will give me some good advice and thank you for reading this.
I’ve just entered a long-distance relationship. My boyfriend lives on the other side of the planet. Besides the horrible distance, everything else is great. He seems to be a sweet guy who cares about me. He just took some vacation time off from work, came over to see me and stayed with me for a couple weeks a short while ago. I planned to visit and stay with him at his place for a month this winter break, and was already going to buy the plane ticket a couple days ago. The thing is I realized that I would have less than $500 after paying all the bills and the ticket. I told him about this and he offered to help me half of the ticket. If he did this, if would save me another $500 and I would have about $1000 for my trip.
I wonder if I should ask him to pay for my entire ticket. I could manage with $1000 for my trip since I am going to stay with him and he said that he would take care of me, but it is also all I have right now. About our situations, I’m in my last year of college and working part-time; he is a couple years older than me and has a decent job. If I won’t go see him, I will be able to make about $2000 during this winter break and save it for my last semester in school.
Do you think it is too much to ask him to pay for my entire ticket since he just spent quite a lot after visiting me not too long ago? I’m sure he’s got a lot of other things to take care, too. At the same time, I just don’t want to put myself in a difficult financial situation, and I think I’ll already have made some sacrifice from not working to see him. What should I do? How should I talk to him without making it sound too off-putting?
I’ve just entered a long-distance relationship. My boyfriend lives on the other side of the planet. Besides the horrible distance, everything else is great. He seems to be a sweet guy who cares about me. He just took some vacation time off from work, came over to see me and stayed with me for a couple weeks a short while ago. I planned to visit and stay with him at his place for a month this winter break, and was already going to buy the plane ticket a couple days ago. The thing is I realized that I would have less than $500 after paying all the bills and the ticket. I told him about this and he offered to help me half of the ticket. If he did this, if would save me another $500 and I would have about $1000 for my trip.
I wonder if I should ask him to pay for my entire ticket. I could manage with $1000 for my trip since I am going to stay with him and he said that he would take care of me, but it is also all I have right now. About our situations, I’m in my last year of college and working part-time; he is a couple years older than me and has a decent job. If I won’t go see him, I will be able to make about $2000 during this winter break and save it for my last semester in school.
Do you think it is too much to ask him to pay for my entire ticket since he just spent quite a lot after visiting me not too long ago? I’m sure he’s got a lot of other things to take care, too. At the same time, I just don’t want to put myself in a difficult financial situation, and I think I’ll already have made some sacrifice from not working to see him. What should I do? How should I talk to him without making it sound too off-putting?