Her Boyfriend Is Extremely Rich, But She’s Somehow Paying For Everything And Having A Hard Time Financially
A 22-year-old woman is in a relationship with a 25-year-old man, and her boyfriend basically just moved right into her place without them really talking it over first.
This all came about because her boyfriend’s lease was coming to an end, and he was then spending several months extensively traveling.
She thought it would be a good idea to let him stay at her place on a temporary basis, so they really didn’t talk about this all a lot before he showed up on her doorstep.
The original plan was that he was going to be at work traveling from Monday through Friday and living with her on Saturday and Sunday.
“This sounded like a great plan so that he could save money, and we spend most weekends together already,” she explained.
“Well, it has turned into him staying with me 2-3 weeks out of the months due to some unforeseen events. Like he has to have a surgery so I took care of him while he was recovering.”
“This has now been going on for 4 months. I love living with him, but it is causing me to struggle financially, which is causing me to stress and put strain on the relationship.”
“I pay for all expenses even though he makes SIGNIFICANTLY more than me. I make about 50k a year and he makes 400k+. I am paying all of the rent, utilities (which has increased), and groceries (which has increased).”
On top of being the one who foots all the bills, she does all of the cleaning and all of the cooking.
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While she wouldn’t normally mind, she works longer hours than he does and she feels like this is all really not so fair.
She would look at this differently if he really was staying over on occasion, but since he’s moved in with her and living there completely free it’s a different story, and she wishes this had been discussed before they took this step in their relationship.
She knows she needs to just sit him down and talk about everything, but she has some hesitations.
“Like I said – he makes much more money than me, so he pays for more things than me,” she said.
“For example, he took me on a trip to Mexico a couple weeks ago and paid for everything and pays for most of our dates.”
“The difference to me though is that he is choosing to pay for these fun things to do and he can afford to do so, but the burden of the bills and cleaning/cooking was placed on me without me directly choosing to do so.”
Her boyfriend is completely aware of her situation from a financial standpoint, and he is aware that she is extremely stressed out about money, so that’s why she’s shocked he’s gone months without even offering once to help her out with the bills.
She isn’t sure if he’s simply out of touch because he’s so wealthy, or if he’s really taking advantage of her.
As for the money he’s saving by living with her rent and expense-free, it’s all peanuts to him, so that also makes her wonder about it all.
She really has no idea how to bring this up to her boyfriend and she is concerned he’ll take it the wrong way and think she’s being tit for tat.
How would you feel in this situation?
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