Why Is It So Hard for Me to Say That?

Serena says she wishes she felt taken care of. She suggests a very lengthy script he can use to acknowledge that maybe right now he can't afford it, but hopefully at some point in the future he will. Nate asks Serena to pick up the check every so often because she rarely does and she makes more money. And suddenly Serena responds by saying, well, I can't always pick it up. "This is such a beautiful example of how money and invisible scripts and culture and gender and communication all roll up into the way we feel about money"