Chip Chick
This 34-year-old woman is engaged to a 37-year-old man, and she characterizes their relationship as truly incredible.
Her fiancé is kind and loving, and she feels lucky to even have this man in her life. However, she just can’t ignore that they lead exceptionally different lives.
Her fiancé grew up in a wildly wealthy family, whereas she grew up in the middle class. She has to work a full-time, very demanding job, and her fiancé is a trust fund baby who does not have to work at all, so he doesn’t.
“This is where my resentment has started to grow,” she explained. “We have vastly different days. I wake up and get ready for a grueling day ahead; he wakes up and goes from workout class to golf.”
“He has no intentions of working beyond light touch investments. We’ve talked about this, and he wants to devote his time to projects he truly cares about, and he does, however, that [is] about 15 hours per month MAX. I can’t fault him.”
“He also didn’t choose to be born rich and has paid a lot of emotional dues for these privileges due to messed up family dynamics. Ones I never have had to. But overall, I love him so much, and I resent/envy how enjoyable his day-to-day is.”
She and her fiancé have discussed her quitting her job at some point, but she can’t envision them both living their lives while not working at all.
She could leave her job behind and pick something else up that doesn’t pay as much but comes with less stress, but it’s more than that.
She also wants her fiancé to work hard at something, anything, and he doesn’t. He’s very smart, and she can see great potential in him.
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