He Stopped Waking His Girlfriend Up For Work In The Morning, So She Got Fired And Now Wants Half Of His Salary Until She Finds A Better Job
This 26-year-old guy and his girlfriend Jess, who’s 28, have been dating for three years and currently live together.
There’s just one main issue in their relationship: Jess is the complete opposite of a “morning person.”
According to him, this is due to the fact that she stays up until 2:00 a.m. or 3:00 a.m. every single night. Then, she has to wake up at 8:00 a.m. each morning.
“I’ve tried to get her to start going to bed earlier so she could wake up on time, but she says that would leave her no time to do her own things,” he detailed.
“Seeing as she only works until 4:00 p.m., this is patently false, but I decided not to press the issue.”
Instead, he’s been forced to wake up his girlfriend practically every day. He normally rises around 5:00 a.m., goes for an hour-long run, showers, and eats breakfast afterward. At that point, he wakes up Jess around 7:30 a.m.
He realizes it is ridiculous to wake up a 28-year-old woman. Yet, he honestly wouldn’t mind if his girlfriend wasn’t a “nightmare” to deal with in the morning.
There is a whole process he has to go through each day to get her out of bed. He begins by slowly turning the lights on at 7:30 a.m. before gently trying to wake his girlfriend up. Plus, if she rises at that point, she typically goes to the bathroom, and he later finds her asleep in bed again.
Still, the worst part is her attitude. Jess is apparently extremely combative in the morning, cursing at him and insulting him for waking her up.
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Whenever he’s attempted to talk about her hurtful statements later in the day, she just makes excuses, too. For instance, “I was sleepy and out of it. What do you want me to do?”
Well, this last Friday, he finally hit his breaking point. He began waking Jess up as normal, and as she walked past him to head to the bathroom, she started dramatically gagging. Next, she claimed that he really smelled bad and told him to take a shower.
“I had already taken a shower and always keep good hygiene,” he said.
So, that Friday evening, he told Jess that he was finished waking her up every day. He was sick of her morning tantrums, insults, and “stupid facial expressions.”
“I told her that I’m not moving a finger to make sure she gets up for work on time. She was naturally upset about this, but I said she could wake herself up,” he explained.
Come Monday morning, Jess failed to do that. She overslept and was actually over an hour late to work. She’d also already been written up for two other issues while still on probation at her job, so she was automatically fired.
That’s why, around 12:00 p.m., he received a livid phone call from his girlfriend, screaming at him for getting her fired. On top of that, once he arrived home that night, she freaked out on him even more and demanded that he hand over half of his salary until she was able to find a better job.
“I feel like making her go cold turkey on waking up might have been too sudden, and apparently, she really liked the job she had,” he admitted.
“Should I have at least tried to wake her up?”
Is it his girlfriend’s responsibility to make sure she’s awake and on time for work? Should he have to give her half of his paycheck now? What would you do?
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