Her Boyfriend Expects Her To Dress Up At His Work Events, So She Asked Him To Pay Her For It
A 28-year-old woman currently works a career where she’s allowed to wear what she wants to work.
She’s free to dye her hair different colors and be herself because all of her coworkers accept her for just the way she is.
In contrast, her boyfriend is an investment banker, so it’s extremely important to him to come across as rich and well-dressed.
Her boyfriend has asked her to attend some of his work events, like happy hours and dinners. As soon as he extended this invitation to her, he mentioned that she would need to really get all dressed up to go with him.
She picked out a few dresses that she could wear, yet her boyfriend turned them all down and maintained that she needed to find something way more over the top than what she already owned.
Her boyfriend let her know that all of the girlfriends and wives of his coworkers only wear designer items, and they also all get their nails and hair done professionally.
He thought that her dressing up the same way as these other women is just an “expense” for his career, so she told her boyfriend that she wanted him to compensate her for getting that level of dressed up.
“He agreed to pay for the clothes and salon appointments and I also asked him to compensate me for my time getting “presentable” for those events,” she explained.
“Additionally, if he wanted me to act a certain way during these events which was different than my usual behavior at a social event, it should be treated like work, I’d expect to be paid for my time.”
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“He thought that was unfair, saying that it was weird to charge my boyfriend to attend an event with him.”
She clarified that her boyfriend didn’t want her to go to his work events just as she already is; he’s expecting her to change herself, and that’s a job.
Eventually, her boyfriend relented, and they sat down to make a list of everything she would need to do or buy to go to this event.
Some of the things on the list included having her hair, makeup, and nails done professionally, as well as buying a designer handbag, dress, jewelry, and heels.
Her boyfriend was the one who found the heels, bag, and dress for her, while she was tasked to figure out the rest of the list.
She booked all of her appointments, which added up to $700 altogether. After she told her boyfriend, he was not happy about the price at all.
“And adding that to the clothes he bought and the time we’d be at the event, it was coming to almost $2000,” she said.
“We went and I played the part, it was uneventful. Nobody paid me much attention. Felt like a bit of a waste but whatevs.”
Right after the event, she asked her boyfriend if she could use his credit card to pay to have the professional nails taken off, and he got upset.
Her boyfriend accused her of “milking him for money” and insisting his money was the sole reason she even wanted to be with him.
Interestingly enough, she has the exact same salary that he does, so his accusations don’t exactly back out here.
Her retort back after pointing that out to him?
“He got pissed and said that most girls know how to dress themselves and do their own makeup nice, and I got so frustrated I said sarcastically “go date most girls then, I’m sure ‘most girls’ would looove being treated like a human dressup doll!”
Her boyfriend is upset, she’s upset, and she’s not sure how to move forward from this, let alone attend any more events with him.
What do you think she should do? You can read the original post on Reddit here.
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