He Took The Keys To The Car He Bought His Girlfriend And Said She Couldn’t Go Out With Her Friends Since She Still Owed Him Money
One of the biggest causes of tension between couples is money issues, particularly when there are shared bills and one person isn’t pulling their weight.
One man recently told his girlfriend she wasn’t allowed to go out to dinner with friends in the car that he bought for her because she owed him a lot of money.
He and his girlfriend recently moved in together and had a set plan to split their rent and utilities. They figured this would be fine because before moving, his girlfriend had a job lined up, but unfortunately, that fell through, and she’s been unemployed ever since.
One of the biggest struggles his girlfriend faced when they first moved in together was that she didn’t have a motive for transportation, so he bought her a reasonably priced car, expecting she would pay him back for it.
However, he didn’t only pay for her car. He’s also been paying their rent, utilities, and other bills without any contribution from her.
“She owes me around $6,000 for the car and our rent since I paid for everything out of pocket,” he explained.
“She started driving for Uber to make a few dollars and was doing pretty good. She started paying off her insurance and other personal bills but gave nothing back to me, which I was fine with.”
He figured that his girlfriend beginning to pay off her personal bills was a sign that she would soon start paying him back and contributing to their household expenses. However, that wasn’t the case.
The other day, he asked his girlfriend to give him money for their monthly grocery bill, which would cost her about $100.
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However, she refused to pay him, stating that she wanted to pay off her credit card bill first, and he accepted that.
But then, the next day, his girlfriend told him she had plans to go out to dinner with some friends.
He was surprised and asked her how she could afford to go out to dinner but could not afford to help him pay for their groceries.
“She said that $25 was less than $200, and she wanted to go out and have fun,” he recalled.
“[She said that] she can’t use everything she makes to pay me back and that she needs balance. I was frustrated and told her she needed to focus on paying me back, at least for the groceries, before thinking about spending money on fun [things].”
His girlfriend then snapped at him, told him she was going out, and that there was nothing he could do about it.
He thought she was acting extremely disrespectful, so he took the keys to the car he bought for her since it’s in his name and told her if she wanted to go out, she’d have to take an Uber or get a friend to drive her.
His girlfriend then accused him of being controlling and petty, but he disagrees and thinks he’s been quite gracious, considering he hasn’t asked her for any money for their shared living expenses in seven months.
But based on her reaction, he’s wondering if he was wrong to tell his girlfriend to start contributing to their household costs before spending money on fun.
Was he wrong to take away his girlfriend’s car that night?
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