Her Boyfriend’s Been Using Her Expensive Bath Products, So She Decided To Force Him To Pay For Them Even Though He Clearly Cannot Afford It
A 24-year-old girl has been in a relationship with her 29-year-old boyfriend for a little less than 2 years, and they moved in together 6 months ago.
She currently has a job that pays her really well in a high-demand industry, while her boyfriend is trying to find a Ph.D. position in an incredibly specific field that does not have a lot of opportunities at all.
While her boyfriend works to secure a position, he works at a part-time job delivering medications while also volunteering at a college.
She is well aware that she will be outearning her boyfriend for quite some time, and when they decided to move in with one another, they made a deal to put 50% of their salaries into a joint account that they could use for groceries or rent.
Then, they took the remaining half of their salaries and put the money in separate personal bank accounts.
“Since I make thrice as much as him, I have more ‘fun money,’ but it also means I’m contributing a lot more to our joint account,” she explained.
“One thing I like to treat myself with is body bath products from this really expensive brand. I pay for them using my personal account and buy less expensive products for my boyfriend using our joint account.”
“Recently, I started smelling these products on my bf (they have a strong, distinct smell), so I asked him if he used them. He said he only uses them a few times a month, so I let it go, as that’s fine. However, I started smelling them on him all the time and also realized I’m running out way quicker than usual.”
She again spoke to her boyfriend about this, and he finally confessed that, yes, he was using her bath products.
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His reasoning for using them was that he liked them more than the products she was purchasing for him, so he ended up using her products every single day.
She maintained that she didn’t have a problem with him using her bath products, but she also informed him that she would be using the money from their joint bank account to purchase them moving forward.
“Well, he freaked out,” she said. “He said he can’t afford them, and since I have more money in my personal account anyways, I can afford it. I, however, think it’s unfair as I’m already paying so much towards our joint account that I would like to use my personal money for my own things and savings.”
“Also, it’s not like I asked him to contribute more than he does towards the joint account; we can afford these products together after our other expenses. It will just cut through a bit from our joint savings. We got into a huge fight, and he’s saying that I’m financially abusing him. He got our friends involved, and they’re split. They think I should be considerate of his feelings as I make a lot more than him and can easily afford the products on my own. Now he has stopped using the products as a protest, and I feel terrible.”
She also added that her job is really stressful, and so it’s very, very important to her that she gets to take baths and be able to use these special bath products that she buys. One time, her boyfriend used her absolute favorite bath bomb, that’s super expensive and impossible to find, and she lost it on him.
Anyway, she’s wondering if it is mean of her to force her boyfriend to pay for her pricey bath products. Would you do the same thing if you were her?
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