She Claims Her Boyfriend Is Perfect In Every Way, But She Cannot Get Over The Fact That He Makes Less Money Than Her
This twenty-eight-year-old woman has been dating her boyfriend, who is thirty, for over a year now. Despite her claiming that her boyfriend is “literally perfect,” though, there has been one thing making her question the future of their relationship: his income.
But before we dive into that, let’s get into how they even met in the first place. Apparently, she and her boyfriend were both born in the same city before moving to the same state– completely unbeknownst to each other. It kind of sounds like fate, right?
Well, by the time they reached high school, she and her boyfriend ended up adding each other on emerging social networks like Facebook and Snapchat.
“And he has been flirting with me and shooting his shot ever since,” she recalled.
However, she honestly never gave her boyfriend a chance when she was a teenager– because, according to her, she was too busy falling head over heels for “bad boys.”
Then, once she reached adulthood, she admits to never thinking that her boyfriend met her standards.
“I fell on the ‘high-value man’ and ‘never settle, level up’ bandwagon in my early twenties. So, I dated well-off and very established men with no children,” she explained.
Her boyfriend, on the other hand, could not have been more different from this archetype. At twenty-four years old, he welcomed a daughter into the world. He also did not pursue college and bounced between low-paying construction and factory jobs.
Nonetheless, she ended up falling in love with her boyfriend anyway. But recently, she cannot help but notice their income disparities.
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For instance, she is currently a certified medical professional who is also in the process of furthering her education. So, she earns more, has a newer car, and also lives in a better apartment.
In fact, she claims to have asked her boyfriend and his daughter to move in with her since her boyfriend’s apartment building was “deplorable” compared to hers.
The only problem now, though, is that she is worried she will be the breadwinner for the rest of their relationship. And to be honest, being the main financial provider is just not how she envisioned her future as a wife.
“But he is the best man I’ve ever met and shared my life with. The purest and kindest soul. He takes amazing care of me in literally every other way, and I am happier with him than I had ever been with those ‘high value’ men,” she revealed.
Despite those feelings, though, she has still been left wondering if love is enough to make their relationship work and if she screwed up by falling in love with her boyfriend.
Why do you think she is stuck on the income disparity if her boyfriend is “perfect” in every other way? Is it possible to have a happy relationship without your boyfriend being the breadwinner? What advice would you give her?
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