How do you walk the line between not wanting to impose on the host and understanding they want the space to show their hospitality? (kbin.social)

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And when money is involved, what's your approach to not make it turns into an endless awkward back and forth because both sides want to pay?

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[-] Wirrvogel@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

Offer to pay, if they decline accept it, but declare "next time it will be definitely my turn" and remember that for next time.

[-] theluddite@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I recommend this too. Some of my friends and I take turns paying for things such that we've long forgotten who was first. It makes it so that you always have an excuse to see a friend ("Hey, I owe you a beer!" or "You owe me a beer!"). It's so easy to get sucked into work and life and such, that it's sometimes the little push I need to see them, or the excuse I need to get them to come over.

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