‘Someone’s gotta keep the lights on’: Man pays full $2,800 rent and covers every expense, working 70-hour workweeks in cybersecurity, while girlfriend contributes $200 monthly and complains about him never being around

This hardworking cybersecurity guy can’t catch a break. Work gobbles up every hour, bills stack up, and fun gets canceled more often than a sketchy software update. He pays for everything, rent, groceries, all the treats, while his girlfriend runs retail shifts and brings home a little rent money each month. Lately she’s decided she’s …
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‘The accidental couple’: College student confesses feelings for crush via message, only to realize he’d sent it to the wrong «Emily,» she invites him for coffee to laugh it off, but their love blossoms instead, leading to them marrying three years later

They say love comes when you least expect it…but what if you did expect it, but just with a different person…This college student is baffled and flushed with embarrassment after expressing his feelings to his crush through text…Only to realize he’s texting the ‘wrong’ Emily. A completely different girl, with nothing in common but identical …
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‘Out of nowhere, I get a DM from a girl saying she’s dating Jake, I didn’t respond’: 26-year-old wonders if she should have warned her 28-year-old ex Jake’s new girlfriend about his toxic behavior after seeing history repeat itself

Every ex who once played the main villain eventually tries to star in someone else’s sequel, and it rarely ends well. The guy in question comes pre-packaged with charm, a smile that looks good in photos, and the self-awareness of a plastic spoon. At first, he’s the boyfriend version of a well-written apology, but before …
Seguir leyendo ‘Out of nowhere, I get a DM from a girl saying she’s dating Jake, I didn’t respond’: 26-year-old wonders if she should have warned her 28-year-old ex Jake’s new girlfriend about his toxic behavior after seeing history repeat itself

31-year-old girlfriend making $100K expects boyfriend to pay her $40K in credit card debt, $60K in car loans, and $20K in student loans: ‘You’ll take care of my debt.’

She’s going to spend her boyfriend out of house and home. There’s a significant stigma surrounding marrying someone for money, but I believe that one can’t marry someone without first considering their financial situation. It matters much less how much someone takes home at the end of a pay period than how they manage that …
Seguir leyendo 31-year-old girlfriend making $100K expects boyfriend to pay her $40K in credit card debt, $60K in car loans, and $20K in student loans: ‘You’ll take care of my debt.’

Mom scolds her 20-year-old son’s 18-year-old girlfriend because he spent money on her against his mom’s wishes: ‘I think a relationship should be you both purchasing your own things.’

You should consider yourself lucky if you’ve never been in a relationship with a mama’s boy. It’s not that I think that men who are close to their mothers are inherently nefarious, but if they value their mother’s opinion above your opinion and their own thoughts, that’s a major red flag. It’s far less common …
Seguir leyendo Mom scolds her 20-year-old son’s 18-year-old girlfriend because he spent money on her against his mom’s wishes: ‘I think a relationship should be you both purchasing your own things.’

‘I was really embarrassed’: Whiny boyfriend spends all long road trip to mountain range sighing and complaining about driving, making his girlfriend cringe, and their friends awkwardly enduring hours of discomfort

There are tantrums, there are unfortunate road trip playlists, and then there is the special endurance trial that is driving two and a half hours next to a grown man performing existential sighs like he’s auditioning for a community theater adaptation of Les Misérables.

‘I can see how many red flags I overlooked’: Woman blocks her ex-fiancé’s attempt to take her son’s trust fund, setting off pressure from family and work connections as he tries involving everyone from bosses to relatives to get his way

Some relationships are less about romance and more about navigating a joint venture, except the only assets merging are your emotions and someone else’s financial wish list. There are people in this world who view other human beings the way aspiring CEOs view quarterly reports.

26-year-old girlfriend forbids boyfriend from accepting a job that’d double his income to $60K because she doesn’t want him working on weekends: ‘We have lived together for 8 years and she said we are done if I accept this job’

It’s extremely common for couples to break up due to one partner getting a new, life-altering job. If your boyfriend of three years gets a job across the country and he wants to move, but you don’t, that’s a highly valid reason to reconsider continuing the relationship. Sure, you could wait six months after he …
Seguir leyendo 26-year-old girlfriend forbids boyfriend from accepting a job that’d double his income to $60K because she doesn’t want him working on weekends: ‘We have lived together for 8 years and she said we are done if I accept this job’

Boyfriend breaks up with girlfriend after seeing her hoarder house for the first time, gets mad at him for leading her on: ‘I could literally taste the overpowering smell of mold and mildew in my mouth.’

Cleanliness is one of the many things you need to be compatible with your partner about. Most people fall somewhere in the middle: neither total clean freaks who need to deep clean the house once a day, nor slobs who haven’t washed a single dish in 10 years. Most disagreements about cleaning come down to …
Seguir leyendo Boyfriend breaks up with girlfriend after seeing her hoarder house for the first time, gets mad at him for leading her on: ‘I could literally taste the overpowering smell of mold and mildew in my mouth.’

26-year-old girlfriend can’t pay rent after spending $800 on a designer purse, freaks out when boyfriend discusses financial responsibility with her: ‘She got defensive and said I was controlling and «didn’t understand women.’

Everything we buy should be categorized into «needs» and «wants.» The most important monthly expenses are rent/house payment, electricity, water, and food. If you can’t afford these things, you’re in deep trouble. After that, you need gas in your car so you can get to work and around the house items like soap and toilet …
Seguir leyendo 26-year-old girlfriend can’t pay rent after spending $800 on a designer purse, freaks out when boyfriend discusses financial responsibility with her: ‘She got defensive and said I was controlling and «didn’t understand women.’