His Girlfriend Owns A Clothing Boutique And He Really Doesn’t Want To Give Up His Nights Or Weekends Helping Her With It
A 30-year-old guy has been living with his 28-year-old girlfriend for half a year now, and before he even met his girlfriend, she opened up her very own clothing boutique.
Just 4 weeks after he and his girlfriend moved in with one another, she started asking him if he would be willing to give up his nights and weekends to help her with her boutique…without pay.
He works a full-time job at an office, which is 40 hours a week, whereas his girlfriend doesn’t have a set schedule of a set amount of hours every week at her boutique.
Since his girlfriend works more hours than he does, he does the majority of their chores and the work around their place.
He doesn’t have a problem with that at all, as he knows that his girlfriend needs to invest a lot of time into her business.
“The problem however is, that she expects me to help her with the store when they are open in the evening (1 evening a week) and on the weekends,” he explained.
“For free. Now you all should know that I am…lazy…Whenever I have a weekend, I want to enjoy my weekend.”
“I do most of the household jobs throughout the week so I have more time off on the weekends. I do not want to help her with her store. Especially not for free.”
His girlfriend also would like to have kids one day, and she fully expects her future children to work at her boutique without any pay as well.
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He and his girlfriend get into disagreements about his unwillingness to help her in her boutique for free, and it’s something they just can’t resolve.
This really is the only issue in their relationship, as aside from bickering about her boutique, they don’t have any other things that they disagree on.
His girlfriend feels that he is not supportive, yet he thinks he is. He does not directly help his girlfriend at the boutique, but he does pitch in and do their housework.
He cooks for her, he cleans their place, and he does a lot more around their house. He just wants to reserve his weekends for downtime.
“I do have the time to help her, really the only reason that I don’t is just that I don’t want to,” he said.
“She argues that sometimes as adults we have to do things we do not want to do. I just said that as an adult I can finally decide to NOT do things I do not want to do, as a child most people don’t have that luxury.”
He is left wondering though if it’s wrong of him to not want to help his girlfriend out on his nights and weekends.
Do you think he should help her for free, or is this all on her since it’s her business?
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