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AITA for not agreeing to give my ex all of our house sale proceeds when we split?
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This is the modern art of breakup economics, where trauma becomes currency and stability is treated like a character flaw. The more successful you are, the more you owe; the more you contribute, the less you deserve. Suddenly, your down payment isn't an investment but a privilege tax, and your financial planning isn't a responsibility but an unfair advantage. The caring, loving thing to do, apparently, is to hand over the keys and walk away with nothing but the warm glow of having been thoroughly fleeced.
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Courts tend to focus on boring details like who actually paid for what, not who has the better victim narrative. In the grand theater of relationship dissolution, the only thing more predictable than the guilt trip is the reality that fairness rarely means what the person demanding it thinks it means.
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Ex demands 100% of joint house sale proceeds, claiming their ex-partner is more financially stable and should walk away empty-handed for the sake of fairness: ‘My partner essentially asked that I turn over the keys and walk away’
Breakups have a way of revealing just how creative people can get when it comes to redefining fairness, especially when there's real estate involved. Suddenly, the person who couldn't scrape together a down payment five years ago becomes an expert in equity theory, armed with a sob story and a calculator that only works in their favor. The logic is breathtaking in its simplicity: because you had money before the relationship, you should have none after it ends. It's like financial socialism, but only when it benefits the person making the argument.
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