When Money Gets Awkward Between Friends

From the reading: When Money Gets Awkward Between Friends

Every friendship group has one: the person who is always in the bathroom when the bill arrives, who orders a single beer when it is their round and a double whisky when it is yours, who insists on splitting equally despite having consumed twice as much as anyone else. Money is one of the most reliable sources of quiet tension between friends — not because people are selfish, but because nobody has agreed on the rules. As Ellie Austin-Williams, a London-based author who writes about financial wellbeing, puts it: people would rather sit in silent resentment for years than say, in the moment, I'd prefer to pay for my own tonight.