Chip Chick
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.”
