He Spent $900 On A Designer Suit, And His Girlfriend Thinks It’s Disrespectful To Her That He Did This Since She’s Struggling To Afford Her Rent Every Month In The City Where They Live
A 26-year-old guy has spent the last 8 months in a relationship with his 24-year-old girlfriend. He believes they do have a genuine connection, and he likes spending time with his girlfriend.
They each are super independent, though; they are focused on their careers and advancing themselves in the workplace.
He’s an engineer, and he makes a ton more money than his girlfriend does working as an accountant.
“I live in a condo by myself,” he explained. “My girlfriend lives with a friend of her’s in an apartment, and they split rent and bills.”
“I always take initiative to pay for activities (like diners) we do as a couple because I’m doing better financially, and I’m the man in the relationship.”
“I don’t mind taking the financial “burden” in our relationship. My salary allows me to enjoy luxuries in my life while still being able to save a good amount every month.”
Now, his girlfriend has to shell out the majority of her paycheck just on her rent payments every month.
The city where they live is extremely expensive, and as he says, his girlfriend’s income does not exactly match up to the “cost of living” where they are.
Despite his girlfriend not earning enough to live comfortably in their city, she’s good at figuring it out alone and making it work.
olly – stock.adobe.com – illustrative purpose only, not the actual person
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He never wants to interfere with his girlfriend’s self-sufficiency, so he does not intervene or offer to pay for her lifestyle at all.
If his girlfriend does ask him for help, he gives it, but other than that, he steps aside. He clarified that if his girlfriend ever found herself needing him to cover her rent, he would happily do it, but it’s never come down to that.
Not too long ago, he had to go suit shopping for his brother’s upcoming wedding, and he really did need to purchase a new suit for the event.
“The past 2 years have been the first years I could say that I actually had a good amount of money for myself,” he said.
“Before this, I never really bought expensive stuff because I couldn’t afford it. Now that I can afford it, I want to be able to enjoy it.”
“So, since it was my brother’s wedding, I wanted to go all out on myself for once. So I bought a $900 designer suit that I love.”
He is going alone to his brother’s wedding, as his girlfriend is going back to her hometown to visit her loved ones at that time.
Anyway, he did let his girlfriend see the suit that he bought, and when he revealed that the suit set him back close to a thousand dollars, his girlfriend became enraged.
“She says that me buying an expensive suit like this is disrespectful and demeaning towards her because I know she can’t afford luxuries like this and that she can barely make rent while I’m buying a suit that costs about as much,” he continued.
“I first thought that she meant that she wouldn’t be able to make rent, so I offered to help her out, but apparently she will be able to make it, and she says that this is just a disrespectful gesture of me and that I’m not considering how she feels.”
His girlfriend is of the opinion that he should never have purchased the suit in the first place to show his “respect for her.”
He believes himself to be incredibly thoughtful overall, though what his girlfriend said never once crossed his mind.
He didn’t appreciate that his girlfriend was trying to dictate to him how he can spend his hard-earned money, so he pointed out to her that it really wasn’t something she was allowed to demand.
“I already pay for most things in our relationship, so I don’t see why I can’t spend the rest of my money on things that I want,” he added.
“This lead to her starting a huge argument going back and forth. I tried to communicate with her, but she kept going on about how disrespectful this was of me so I just ended up leaving.”
This all went down a day ago, and he and his girlfriend have not spoken to one another since then.
He’s curious if it really was so rude of him to purchase the suit after all. Do you think so?
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