Translations:Managing Event Costs/15/en

Emotional harm in this area rarely arrives as open conflict. It usually takes the form of a host who feels used, a guest who feels judged, or a friendship that cools without either person naming why. Almost all of it traces back to expectations that were assumed rather than stated.

| Conclusion=Event costs are ordinary, and treating them as ordinary is most of the work. Naming what a gathering will involve financially, deciding in advance how that will be shared, and allowing room for people whose circumstances differ removes a source of low-grade tension that otherwise sits underneath the evening.