I wouldn’t ask this. He’s your boyfriend. Not your husband. Not your sugar daddy. It’s not his job to support you.
It might be fair to ask for an adjustment in the rent in general so you can base it on income rather than 50/50. Since your income isn’t equal. Maybe he’d be willing to go 60/40 or 70/30. But if you agreed to 50/50 then he wouldn’t be wrong to say no.
Asking for someone to completely pay for the roof over your head isn’t cool.
Perhaps approach the topic by telling him that you are struggling and were wondering if you guys could make some adjustments to your current financial agreement so you could get ahead. Ask what he would think about changing the contribution to rent. See how he reacts. Go from there.
You my friend are a bunch of red flags stitched up to make a very insecure man. Please ask yourself why you don't trust your girlfriend to have male friends? “You've been dealing with her?” “You shut that down” nah you sound controlling, insecure, and you make me hella uncomfortable.
The direct opposite is true: technology is allowing us to spend more time with our children than ever before.
When I was young, a study was published celebrating the finding that the average daily time a parent spent focusing on their child had tripled in the past decade.
That time had rocketed from a measly twelve minutes per day up to a staggering thirty-five minutes per day.
Since then, dishwashers, vacuums, steam irons, mops, reliable indoor plumbing and heating and many more things have been introduced into the average household. Parents now have so much time to spend with their kids that it’s more or less expected that they will spend hours per day interacting with their children.
The idea that technology has “orphaned” us is laughable. It tells me that you’re so privileged you have no idea how much technology has freed you from basic drudgery.
Learn to read and let it sink in before you respond just to make sure what you say goes. People aren’t obligated to write essays for you, and yet I did. Since you don’t bother reading it through, Convo is over.
he's grieving hard-core. people on here~ leave him, he's terrible, dump his ass. Has anyone said, this man needs grief counseling and serious help stat!
I think your behavior here is the red flag. I mean really, how would you feel if you said no to sending a very hot twice and your partner kept pressuring you to because “you shouldn’t need to hide it”? Probably not great.
Everyone is insecure about something. And that’s their thing to deal with. Pressuring them to do something regarding it will just make it worse. You really need to realize what you’ve done wrong, delete the photo, and sincerely apologize and be there for him. That is extremely violating.
Be careful with “yes means yes.” I have seen/heard that be used as an argument against someone being allowed to revoke consent once given. I have also seen/heard of someone being badgered, manipulated or pressured into a reluctant “yes” when they truly did NOT want whatever it was to happen.
You're in your early 20's. You have a ton of life ahead of you. Do you wanna spend your best years putting up with your boyfriends bullshit because he doesn't wanna act like an adult?
You might love him, but he doesn't love you. He'd say anything about you if it suited him. Think about the girl who was honest with you about him, who looked out for you when he lied about you. She knew he was trash and she knew she'd rather tell you the truth than get back with this total fucking clown. He sold you out to her to try to stay with her and she was loyal to you. Not him. Think about that. This guy is only about himself. This woman is more on your side than he is.
Drop him like the turd he is. Meet someone who values you.
I am. Done a lot of reading on them and have brought the concept up, explained mine and then asked him what he connected most with those and just said “I don’t know I’ll think about it”. Never responded to me. Checked in a few times on it but got the same answer.
No, he does none of those/none apply to his behavior.
It is coming from a deep understanding of how emotions work. I’m a psychologist who works with severe emotion dysregulation and if OP’s girlfriend was in front of me I’d absolutely tell her to validate him instead of invalidate him (as I did say more than once in my comment). And at the same time, for OP to say well after the fact when things have cooled down, that she “wants him dead” is a choice he’s making that is making him feel worse. And being TOLD to calm down in the moment is definitely not helpful, but the only way for people to turn anxiety symptoms around is to take responsibility for them and attempt to check reality and decatastrophize, and ultimately try to calm down themselves. It is difficult but definitely something that people can do if they put the work in. He’s the one asking what he should do, and there are many choices that both of them make to take things in a better direction.
thank you! you are right, I haven't been taking care of myself at all. I think i will be cutting out drinking for quite a while, and focus on school and my health. Thanks!
I’m not sure what your relationship with her is like. Maybe your relationship is on the rocks and this is some kind of test or a jealousy ploy? Or maybe she’s basically telling you she’s going to fuck the dude?
One thing it is NOT is a standard lodging arrangement for a work trip. Speak now or forever hold your peace.
Well I was a bit stressed out by the uncertainty of everything but also didn’t want to annoy/pressure him so I decided I need some space to cool off & focus on other stuff for a bit – which he said he doesn’t think is necessary but he’ll wait if that’s what I want (idk if this extra info helps?)
We are in the U.S and she already has Medicaid I’m replying to you because you seem to know what you are talking about. Even though I am replying to everyone. I love her truly and deeply. To me it really does seem she does want to get better. I’m going to look into talking to a social workers but I know it isn’t open until Monday. I think she didn’t qualify for SSI but I can’t ask because she’s currently flaring up. I know she has had serious mental health issues in her childhood. She takes a lot of meds for that and for Fibromyalgia which I should have included that she has in my original post. I also am in control of her medication mostly, I’m very sure she is not faking it because I spend so much time with her. Her mother is not around and her dad lives in another county. She has siblings and an uncle but that’s all she has local. I wish it were so easy to wash my hands of this but it is not how I was raised. I have to find an alternative solution than me taking care of her. I know that for certain now. Thank you all very much to those who gave advice/tried to help and to those who think you can throwaway a human being I hope someone actually loves you one day. Maybe then your heart will soften. Maybe in a week or so I’ll comment again, after I’ve done something
My driving instructor was a provincial police accident scene photographer, he said the same thing, and added he hoped that he never had to photograph one of his students.
No to all of that.
Are the children school age? She misses you and needs you to make her feel loved and appreciated. Time to resweep her off her feet.
I wouldn’t ask this. He’s your boyfriend. Not your husband. Not your sugar daddy. It’s not his job to support you.
It might be fair to ask for an adjustment in the rent in general so you can base it on income rather than 50/50. Since your income isn’t equal. Maybe he’d be willing to go 60/40 or 70/30. But if you agreed to 50/50 then he wouldn’t be wrong to say no.
Asking for someone to completely pay for the roof over your head isn’t cool.
Perhaps approach the topic by telling him that you are struggling and were wondering if you guys could make some adjustments to your current financial agreement so you could get ahead. Ask what he would think about changing the contribution to rent. See how he reacts. Go from there.
You my friend are a bunch of red flags stitched up to make a very insecure man. Please ask yourself why you don't trust your girlfriend to have male friends? “You've been dealing with her?” “You shut that down” nah you sound controlling, insecure, and you make me hella uncomfortable.
The direct opposite is true: technology is allowing us to spend more time with our children than ever before.
When I was young, a study was published celebrating the finding that the average daily time a parent spent focusing on their child had tripled in the past decade.
That time had rocketed from a measly twelve minutes per day up to a staggering thirty-five minutes per day.
Since then, dishwashers, vacuums, steam irons, mops, reliable indoor plumbing and heating and many more things have been introduced into the average household. Parents now have so much time to spend with their kids that it’s more or less expected that they will spend hours per day interacting with their children.
The idea that technology has “orphaned” us is laughable. It tells me that you’re so privileged you have no idea how much technology has freed you from basic drudgery.
Learn to read and let it sink in before you respond just to make sure what you say goes. People aren’t obligated to write essays for you, and yet I did. Since you don’t bother reading it through, Convo is over.
“hey reddit! is it okay for me to not want my boyfriend to break the law and get charged with vehicular manslaughter?”
he's grieving hard-core. people on here~ leave him, he's terrible, dump his ass. Has anyone said, this man needs grief counseling and serious help stat!
I think your behavior here is the red flag. I mean really, how would you feel if you said no to sending a very hot twice and your partner kept pressuring you to because “you shouldn’t need to hide it”? Probably not great.
Everyone is insecure about something. And that’s their thing to deal with. Pressuring them to do something regarding it will just make it worse. You really need to realize what you’ve done wrong, delete the photo, and sincerely apologize and be there for him. That is extremely violating.
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Yeah, same as bitch is not sexist, because you call your buddies that word, right?
Be careful with “yes means yes.” I have seen/heard that be used as an argument against someone being allowed to revoke consent once given. I have also seen/heard of someone being badgered, manipulated or pressured into a reluctant “yes” when they truly did NOT want whatever it was to happen.
You're in your early 20's. You have a ton of life ahead of you. Do you wanna spend your best years putting up with your boyfriends bullshit because he doesn't wanna act like an adult?
You might love him, but he doesn't love you. He'd say anything about you if it suited him. Think about the girl who was honest with you about him, who looked out for you when he lied about you. She knew he was trash and she knew she'd rather tell you the truth than get back with this total fucking clown. He sold you out to her to try to stay with her and she was loyal to you. Not him. Think about that. This guy is only about himself. This woman is more on your side than he is.
Drop him like the turd he is. Meet someone who values you.
Is your sex life healthy? I think if it is, I would be more at peace from what you say.
Could've been 18 years later but yeah get them fired and move on
I am. Done a lot of reading on them and have brought the concept up, explained mine and then asked him what he connected most with those and just said “I don’t know I’ll think about it”. Never responded to me. Checked in a few times on it but got the same answer.
No, he does none of those/none apply to his behavior.
OK. This is addict behavior. Addicts lie. They lie to others and more importantly, they lie to themselves.
Other commenters are saying don't be in a relationship with an addict. I can't say I disagree.
It is coming from a deep understanding of how emotions work. I’m a psychologist who works with severe emotion dysregulation and if OP’s girlfriend was in front of me I’d absolutely tell her to validate him instead of invalidate him (as I did say more than once in my comment). And at the same time, for OP to say well after the fact when things have cooled down, that she “wants him dead” is a choice he’s making that is making him feel worse. And being TOLD to calm down in the moment is definitely not helpful, but the only way for people to turn anxiety symptoms around is to take responsibility for them and attempt to check reality and decatastrophize, and ultimately try to calm down themselves. It is difficult but definitely something that people can do if they put the work in. He’s the one asking what he should do, and there are many choices that both of them make to take things in a better direction.
thank you! you are right, I haven't been taking care of myself at all. I think i will be cutting out drinking for quite a while, and focus on school and my health. Thanks!
I’m not sure what your relationship with her is like. Maybe your relationship is on the rocks and this is some kind of test or a jealousy ploy? Or maybe she’s basically telling you she’s going to fuck the dude?
One thing it is NOT is a standard lodging arrangement for a work trip. Speak now or forever hold your peace.
Well I was a bit stressed out by the uncertainty of everything but also didn’t want to annoy/pressure him so I decided I need some space to cool off & focus on other stuff for a bit – which he said he doesn’t think is necessary but he’ll wait if that’s what I want (idk if this extra info helps?)
How did you come to have custody of your husband's sister when she was 15?
We are in the U.S and she already has Medicaid I’m replying to you because you seem to know what you are talking about. Even though I am replying to everyone. I love her truly and deeply. To me it really does seem she does want to get better. I’m going to look into talking to a social workers but I know it isn’t open until Monday. I think she didn’t qualify for SSI but I can’t ask because she’s currently flaring up. I know she has had serious mental health issues in her childhood. She takes a lot of meds for that and for Fibromyalgia which I should have included that she has in my original post. I also am in control of her medication mostly, I’m very sure she is not faking it because I spend so much time with her. Her mother is not around and her dad lives in another county. She has siblings and an uncle but that’s all she has local. I wish it were so easy to wash my hands of this but it is not how I was raised. I have to find an alternative solution than me taking care of her. I know that for certain now. Thank you all very much to those who gave advice/tried to help and to those who think you can throwaway a human being I hope someone actually loves you one day. Maybe then your heart will soften. Maybe in a week or so I’ll comment again, after I’ve done something
My driving instructor was a provincial police accident scene photographer, he said the same thing, and added he hoped that he never had to photograph one of his students.