When She Was Sick, She Asked Her Boyfriend To Run Out And Get Her Some Cold Medicine, But Then He Expected Her To Pay Him Back For It
It’s common in a long-term relationship to share finances. Maybe you pay for dinner one night, your partner pays for the next. But what about small expenses?
Would you expect to have to pay them back for $5? TikTok creator @jackieli852 didn’t expect this to happen, but it’s exactly what her boyfriend did to her.
“One time, I was feeling really sick, and I asked my boyfriend at the time if he could buy me some cold medicine on his way home,” she said. “So after he finished work, he dropped by CVS and picked up some DayQuil for me.”
It undoubtedly is a nice thing for him to do for his girlfriend. But because she was his girlfriend, she didn’t think asking him to stop for her when she wasn’t feeling well was a big issue. She explains how he brought her home the medicine, which she took before bed.
“The next day, I wake up, and he’s Venmo charged me $7 for this medicine,” she said with a long pause and a shocked look on her face.
She obviously paid him for the cold medicine, but she nonetheless thought that it was a bizarre request from her boyfriend.
“At that point, we’d been dating for like four years,” she said.
While some couples choose to break up finances item per item, others don’t. Especially for something that costs so little, once you’ve been in a relationship for a long time–like four years–you may start to care less and less about things like this.
“I don’t know, I think I prefer a relationship where it’s like, ‘hey, I’ll get this, you get that the next time,’ and we’re not like keeping track of our expenses like dollar by dollar,” she said. “I should have known.”
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She was rightfully caught off guard by this incident because of his behavior previously in the relationship.
“He was a pretty good partner,” she said. “He would pay for my dinners when it was my birthday, it was an anniversary, Valentine’s Day, like a special occasion, but other than that, we did a pretty good job of splitting the bills evenly.”
Given that it was only a few dollars, and he hadn’t made an issue of it before, she was especially confused.
“Obviously, if there were a few dollars here and there, it didn’t really matter,” she said. “So I remember the medicine and Venmo incident and thinking, ‘oh, that’s kind of weird.'”
Whether or not this was a deciding factor in their relationship for her, they are definitely “not together anymore,” she said. But viewers were not pleased with her story. Many couldn’t believe that her long-term boyfriend would ask that of her.
“When you said 4 years, my jaw dropped. Can’t even get you cold medicine without the Venmo request after 4 years,” one commenter wrote.
Another said, “I live with a male roommate, and when I tell you, he pays for things just because I mentioned I needed it and never ask for any money. Ladies, take no bs.”
At the end of it all, the takeaway is that it just “wasn’t meant to be.”
@jackieli852 Replying to @yubee.na
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