Orikinla, I agree that a relationship usually costs money and if it is only little - but not only for the guy involved. In an "ideal" relationship both would spent about an equal amount of money on fostering their love to each other, for visits, for (small) gifts once in a while, for phonecalls, for romantic dinners, for travels together --- If one of them had less money, I would say s/he should not be asked to contribute as much as the other part. However, if it would end up in being nothing, this might just show a lack of seriousness or a will to exploit the situation.
How many of you are willing to live a precarious life with a starving artist whose welfare hangs on the hope of selling some artworks and in Nigeria where there are more vandals and intellectual morons than art collectors, he would starve to death and no amount of kisses of life by the woman who loves him can bring him back to life.
I would IF he was a guy who makes me happy, who is likely to be faithful and stay committed to our relationship, who treats me as an equal and who has the zeal to work himself up into a better position. The profession for which I am training is also not the most likely to make me rich, but I've chosen it because it seems to offer me a possibility to do something worthwile.