Reading this give me douche-chills, blech..
"I've been with my boyfriend for 5+ years and we've been living together for 2.5 years. He makes double what I make and yet we still split things 50-50, right down the middle. I have been ok with doing that so far, because my mum sends me $600 a month to go towards my rent. That all ends in December.
We are moving to a bigger apartment, at his insistence, next week, where my share of the monthly rent will be 69% of my bimonthly paycheque.
Every time I bring up the fact that I would like to look into how we can split our finances more fairly, my boyfriend gets upset and seems to think that I'm just looking for a free ride.
That is not the case at all, I just want the same opportunity that he has to pay off his debts. Right now, my bimonthly paycheques bring me juuuuuust back into the clear from my overdraft, but then with all the bills and expenses, I have spent most of my money within 4 days and have to try to last the next week and a half on $100 (impossible).
I have tried to explain to him that a lot of couples split their expenses based on income levels and he seemed repulsed by the idea at first. Now he is KIND of warming up to it, but is only willing to pay an extra $100 for rent/month and pay slightly more for groceries.
That doesn't really help at all and I can't get him to see that this is driving me crazy. I need advice on how to approach him and how to explain why we need to do this. Please, please help!"
My boyfriend makes double what I make and insists that we split payments on everything 50-50. I need advice! : TwoXChromosomes
"I've been with my boyfriend for 5+ years and we've been living together for 2.5 years. He makes double what I make and yet we still split things 50-50, right down the middle. I have been ok with doing that so far, because my mum sends me $600 a month to go towards my rent. That all ends in December.
We are moving to a bigger apartment, at his insistence, next week, where my share of the monthly rent will be 69% of my bimonthly paycheque.
Every time I bring up the fact that I would like to look into how we can split our finances more fairly, my boyfriend gets upset and seems to think that I'm just looking for a free ride.
That is not the case at all, I just want the same opportunity that he has to pay off his debts. Right now, my bimonthly paycheques bring me juuuuuust back into the clear from my overdraft, but then with all the bills and expenses, I have spent most of my money within 4 days and have to try to last the next week and a half on $100 (impossible).
I have tried to explain to him that a lot of couples split their expenses based on income levels and he seemed repulsed by the idea at first. Now he is KIND of warming up to it, but is only willing to pay an extra $100 for rent/month and pay slightly more for groceries.
That doesn't really help at all and I can't get him to see that this is driving me crazy. I need advice on how to approach him and how to explain why we need to do this. Please, please help!"
My boyfriend makes double what I make and insists that we split payments on everything 50-50. I need advice! : TwoXChromosomes