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Materialistic girlfriend

Recently I had an arguement with my girlfriend of 1 year because I didn't want to spend 1300rmb to buy her some clothes. It's not that I don't want to, it's just that I don't earn enough to be wasting on these kind of purchases. I mean, if I was a banker pulling in 100k+ a month, fine. But I'm only earning 15k a month and have to pay for rent, food, and taking care of my car (which I bought with my past savings, and mainly because she wanted me to buy one). I only manage to save a little bit each month now. I think she should be understanding of that.

I met my gf in Mix and it was her beauty that attracted me to her. So maybe she is just used to a certain level of guy going after her. We started argueing because she said, "If my boyfriend doesn't buy things for me, then what's the use of having you?" and also "I've been with you for 1 year already and what do I have to show for it?" This really hurt me because I do like her a lot, but when she says things like this to me, it just makes me want to break up.

Do all Chinese think foreigners are rich or something? My gf can be selfish at times and she always says that in China, it's the custom for guys to pay for everything. On top of that, she wants me to give my salary to her to manage. She also said that's what all Chinese do. Well, I am still in control of my salary (thank god!) but lately she's been getting more upset about my financial situation. I think I should break up with her, but there are moments when she is so nice and sweet also. But I think I can also see that she's the type who wants a high class life and will leverage her looks to acheive that goal, and she thinks I'm holding her back.

So do you guys think I should just break up with her? Are your experiences with Chinese girls the same as mine? It seems her friends have a similar mindset too. Why does it seem so hard to find a girl in Beijing who won't look at me as an ATM machine.


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To her, you are an ATM.

I don't think anyone can tell you what you don't already know...you summed it up quite nicely.

You know the price of admission and that seems to be the going rate. Is it worth it? Only you can answer that.

Sometimes it's cheaper to rent than to own...

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first off, i dont know how it took you a whole year to figure out your gf is materialistic..hahah...but from your post, sounds it's getting worse maybe?

...dont worry about what she said, chinese girls can also be pretty rude when they're angry, but just wait till she's calmed down, a day or two later, and explain that it's not right or fair to say such hurtful things even when they angry. but i believe she probably didnt mean it.

..but i hate when girls use the 'everybody in china does this' excuse. thats bull. china has 1.3billion people and not every guy is supporting his spoiled brat gf, trust me
...it's time to call her bluff. tell her to get out, if she goes, then she never loved you. if she stays, things will be different and you will see how much she loves you and not have to buy so much sh*t for her.
either way you win!
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broke up with her.
I hate those woman.
thank god I am not one of those.
I am sure she likes you but I don't think as much as she loves money.

To be or not to be, that's never a question.

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Samboy. Meltwindy is waiting for you! Don't worry she's low maintenance!!!

I love China! 一切反动派都是纸北京猫!!!

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everyone has neeeds ,sometimes pretty gals have a bigger eyes on the cloth or jewlry ,blabla stuff than theirself .(actually its not wrong because everyone loves beautiful things) so if you could not afford it ,just let her go or yourself..because she maybe compmise one or two times but third .no way!!! so make it shorter ! just talk to her and break up clean..

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I'm native bj boy. I believe, unfortunely, you meet a very selfish girl. In China, for sometimes, boy pay for everything. But it is not common case at all. Not only to foreign men, some chinese girls would do the same thing to his chinese boy friends. She do it because "my mother/friends told me I should do this. If your salary is managed by me, I will feel better.". In your case, maybe you'd better to break up with her. Those selfish girls do not deserve your love. They are trouble-makers.

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you met your gf at mix?!!?! try vics!!! haha.. its right across the street =)

but on a more serious note, everyone is materialistic to a certain extent. its not all that bad bro, her looks make up for it!!!

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samboy wrote:

I met my gf in Mix

/thread

Bizarro!

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This is a tough concept for some girls to understand but sit her down and have a serious talk with her about how the real world works, you need to balance your spending with your income and you also want to save a little money every month. She might not know or take this very seriously but she kinda has to,, its part of growing up and you are not doing her any favors by giving in to her all the time. I was in a 4 year relationship with a Chinese gal and she was a bit like that in the beginning but she gradually came around to realise that it IS possible to survive without 30 pairs of shoes, 20 handbags and 50 different scarfs. And after a couple of serious conversations about the subject of money she even made household budgets (presumably to figure out exactly how much she could spend hehe) but it was all good. I would be vary of a girl who wasn't able to be reasonable in these areas. If it really means this much to her you can rest assured she will keep asking for more and more,, either she realises she is not 18 and living with her parents anymore or she probably needs to go.

(Brian starts singing)
Stewie : Hey, who sings that song?
Brian: James Taylor.
Stewie: Let's keep it that way.

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I will have a talk with her and give her the choice to break up or not. If she is looking to cash in on her looks, then that is something that I cannot provide for her at this point. I don't think I would be devastated because I can understand where she's coming from. I suppose it's like I've been having a Maserati at Honda prices for a year already (no offense to Honda owners).

However, if she does choose to stay with me and my projects take off, then I would seriously consider spending the rest of my life with her (I'm 26 now). Although I know she can't look this good forever, but it really makes me feel great when we're out in the mall or wherever and all eyes are on us (mainly her).

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dump her fast. find another. if she comes back, tell her what's what.

be a man, you know what's right. don't let a girl tell you what to do. i divorced my wife because she wanted control of the money. F-that.

word.

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samboy wrote:
... and it was her beauty that attracted me to her.

This quote and in your last post, the issue, that "everybody is looking to her, when you are in the mall". This is quite a little bit strange..........to me. First of all, to find somebody, will be in the first two seconds guided by the eyes, but for a long term relationship this guides should be changed to internal values. If not, then you are not in love with her, only with her beauty and your statement:"...living together until the end of my live should be revised to:...until the end of her beauty"!

My two cents, check yourself and the feelings to her, if you are okay, then discuss with her (on a good day) this issue. That you have limited funds and of course, beautiful clothes is okay, but not every months and blablablabla.

If she is having also some feelings to you, she will understand and try to make something good out of this, if not, say good-bye to her.

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Do you want to marry her soon? Or even she has accepted your proposal? If so, she asked to manage your money, that is a bit reasonable. If you wont marry her, and her wont marry you, why you let her to manage your life. In China, yep, most of married couples, only wife control all income. But she is only your gf. Moreover, you are not her bank or ATM.
I guess you can discuss your truly ideas and feeling with her. If she really love you, she can understand you. If she still insist you should buy everything she likes, I guess she only love your money.

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I reckon someone - admin? - makes up all these threads just to keep this forum alive. There just can't be THAT many mugs like samboy out there, and even fewer who would tell people about it on a forum. Esp as money-loving scavenging Chinese girls are the biggest cliches of all times. Every week there's a supposed newbee going "my gf wants me to give all my money to her family", "i want to break up with my gf but she's blackmailing me", "i pay for all our bills, help!"

Samboy, come clean. You're not serious are you?

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Oh, and if this is real, then the GF is either really crap at gold digging or doesn't know how much Samboy earns. A 15K a month boyfriend is only worth having for paying for all her needs??! What is this - 1990? Or maybe she buys all her clothes from Xidan.

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What an old story
You didnt ask her what she took you for that night in Mix?
In spire your imagination and try a girl less pretty and not comfortable hanging in bars next time

ici internet

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hi dude, here is the solution: transfer your gf to this guy:

http://www.thebeijinger.com/forum/2008/09/27/Mistress

I bet he will be very happy to keep your gf--he doesnt have to waste time in Mix or Vic bcuz ur gf suits him perfectly.

“Dogs have Owners, Cats have Staff.”

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samboy wrote:
I met my gf in Mix and it was her beauty that attracted me to her. So maybe she is just used to a certain level of guy going after her.

why should your pet pay for her own food????

“Dogs have Owners, Cats have Staff.”

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Quote:
she said, "If my boyfriend doesn't buy things for me, then what's the use of having you?" and also "I've been with you for 1 year already and what do I have to show for it?"

A girl says this to you, and you still consider spending 5 more seconds with her? Even marry her, "once you get rich enough" for her? ahahaha I laugh but Heaven cries.

And you need the fix of people envying you that you got a girl like her..even though they all think you are her ATM..you really need to work on your issues mate, you are barely half a person, but a 100% fullblown, selfmade sucker.

Im not trying to be mean, Im trying to help you. But you do make it difficult to distinguish between compassion and pity.

Oh Wind, if Winter cometh, can Spring be far behind?

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Dump her and find a foreign girlfriend. I've been in China long enough to known that 90% of Chinese girls ARE superficial, materialistic and controlling. Unfortunately it's just part of the culture at this point in time (I don't care how unPC it is). If that is your thing, knock yourself out. If not, grow a set, stop bitching, tell her to go find a sugar Daddy, and move on.

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CyniCritic wrote:
I've been in China long enough to known that 90% of Chinese girls ARE superficial, materialistic and controlling. Unfortunately it's just part of the culture at this point in time

90%?! how sad it is! how many chinese women have you ever dated? 100? 1000? 100K? i wonder why all superficial gold diggers surged to you? any special reasons behind it?

“Dogs have Owners, Cats have Staff.”

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Not just me, also friends with girlfriends. The truth hurts, get over it.

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your friends had the same experiences? oh it proves an old saying: things of one kind come together--u, ur friends and those mentioned girls;)

“Dogs have Owners, Cats have Staff.”

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LOL I just saw this ad again:

Quote:
Looking for my sunshine boy just born for me. my sunshine boy born in January Capricorn nineteen seventy six, with a heart of gold no corruptly behavior no bureaucratic value 1.9cm angel face loyal forever.... this is a serious ad link with marriage.send pic to: xxxxxxx@yahoo.com.cn

She isn't materialistic, just f-ing nuts. I hope she doesn't represent the last 10% Big Grin

No really, of the girls Ive personally met here in China none of them has been neither golddiggers nor nuts. Strangely enough, since it seems from posts in this forum I should be knee-deep in atleast the former, as I look very laowai, usually wear a s***load of gold and prefer quality clothes. And I even attend a university where ya'll say everybody is a ho on the prowl!

Bonus trivia from the world of weird but nice surprises: A large percentage of girls Ive talked with in China likes Jane Austen books. Hmm. Ofcourse thats great and should be encouraged, so today I went and bought Jane Austen The Complete Works for my landlord's young daughter. Just doing my bit to prevent her ending in those grim statistics of golddiggers and nutcases.

Oh Wind, if Winter cometh, can Spring be far behind?

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lmao wrote:
Ofcourse thats great and should be encouraged, so today I went and bought Jane Austen The Complete Works for my landlord's young daughter.

Put the books down and slowly back away from the young daughter,,

(Brian starts singing)
Stewie : Hey, who sings that song?
Brian: James Taylor.
Stewie: Let's keep it that way.

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beijingcat wrote:
your friends had the same experiences? oh it proves an old saying: things of one kind come together--u, ur friends and those mentioned girls;)

Didn't know that was an old saying... But I'm nice, so here's a free English lesson. We have a phrase in English which is a little more poetic "Birds of a feather flock together" or in this case "Hoes in the jing flock to bling" Wink You're welcome.

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samboy wrote:
I met my gf in Mix and it was her beauty that attracted me to her. So maybe she is just used to a certain level of guy going after her.

This should be titled "Materialistic boy meets materialistic girl." The relationship might have worked out ok, except you never mentioned that she works. It sounds like she doesn't have a job and maybe not even the skills to get a good job. In that case, she's totally materially dependent on you and that spells an unequal relationship which...won't stay that way for very long unless something changes.

Stay Hungry!

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don't cheat yourself any more.in beijing you don't have a opportunity to know a gf who is from the same country with you

bj girls are hard to find rich bf who is chinese guy also.

so you chosed her for your need and she did a same job.

do you want to marry her? no! right?

there are 18 million people in beijing.half of them are women(9 million)
and 1/9 of women are youth(1 million)
and 5% of youth are pretty girls(500,000)
and 1% of pretty girls have the same idear with your gf(5,000)
and the improtant thing is most of them are crazy about nightlife.

so if you are available,stay in a bar with dressing up and say someting to girls. you can find a gf very soon.

good luck

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Yes, been there and dumped the girl for it. Talk to her all you want but she will always be a money grabbing little bitch. Her looks will fade and she will be left with nothing. Seriously, get out of this. She is using you.

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