A Cuban identified as Yaniris González (@yanirisgonzalez4) posted a video on TikTok that rejects the 50/50 spending model in romantic relationships, and her arguments received largely favorable responses from women.
In the video, which lasts just over a minute, González argues that this equal sharing overlooks burdens that fall exclusively on women: the pain of childbirth, breastfeeding, and the double shift that many take on when they return home from work to manage cleaning, cooking, and childcare.
"Hey, fifty-fifty nothing, fifty-fifty nothing. The day a man goes through the pains you endured to give birth, the day he helps you breastfeed a newborn, the day he comes home from work and starts cleaning, cooking, taking care of the kids, bathing them, that’s the day they can talk about what percentage you can contribute at home," says González.
The creator points directly to a dynamic she describes as common: "It's very nice to ask for fifty-fifty but not to do anything else, getting home from work, sitting on the couch, and waiting for everything to be ready."
In the second part of the video, González illustrates his argument with the story of a friend who complained that his Cuban partner left him two years after he brought her to the country.
Far from agreeing, González dismantles the claim: that woman, within a month of her arrival, was already working during the day and cleaning at night, paying half of a rent that the man already had before she arrived, and she covered half of the food expenses and all outings.
"Fulanita paid you back three times what you invested in her in two years," González concludes, before asking the question that sums up the entire argument: "What did you want, a partner or a roommate?"
The video is part of a recurring debate among Cuban women about sharing expenses that has been ongoing on TikTok for years, with very diverse opinions within the diaspora.
In September 2025, another Cuban went viral for defending a flexible distribution based on the couple's income, arguing that "if you earn more, then it will be 70/30."
In March 2025, a Cuban was applauded for deeming it unacceptable that a man asks his partner to pay half of the rent, arguing that "the man came to the earth to protect and provide."
González's video stands out from those positions because it does not appeal to traditional gender roles, but rather to the specific biological and domestic burdens that women bear, which, according to her, no equal economic distribution can compensate for.
According to data from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean published in January 2026, 79% of household chores in heterosexual Latin American couples fall on women, a statistic that supports the essence of the argument that González presents in his video.
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