If a relationship hits that point where love starts feeling like an invoice, it’s probably time to start rehearsing how you’ll break up rather than planning a wedding rehearsal

This couple started out as most do, the early years are all laughter, shared dreams, maybe some shared nightmares over IKEA furniture assembly. Then one day, this guy wakes up, the bills have his name on them, and his partner is asking for long‑term financial security disguised as romance. It’s not that marriage is the problem, it’s realizing the proposal is being negotiated in the same tone as a loan.  

Most of the time I’m the cynic, but here? With this story? Call me a romantic or call me naive, but this one’s unacceptable to me. If you unknowingly move from a loving partnership to one sided financial support system, you can sign me out. And that’s exactly what makes this one especially bleak: how normal it sounds. A man supports his partner’s dream, she chases it, it flops, and the resentment starts seeping in like mold. The language she uses is spiritual, but the structure is corporate, investing other people’s stability into something that was supposed to be freeing. It’s capitalism dressed as self‑actualization, and he’s footing the bill.