Want to be my friend? There is one dining rule you must adhere to

A woman taking weight-loss drugs asked her friend if she could pay less, as she had eaten less. That friendship seems doomed to me ... Medication can have a wide array of side-effects, which now apparently includes penny-pinching. In the newsletter the Daily Skimm, a reader had a query for the money expert Heather Boneparth: “A close friend who’s on a GLP-1 recently asked to pay a quarter of our dinner bill instead of splitting it evenly, since she ate significantly less. Was I wrong to push ...

By Polly Hudson