27-year-old boyfriend spends thousands on entitled girlfriend, considers breaking up with her after she refuses to let him have a bowl of her cereal: 'She wouldn’t spare cereal that costs less than $6 a box'

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Emma Saven
Jul 12, 2025 10:00 PM EDT

Love conquers all… but does it conquer the thought of your partner using you to fund their bougie lifestyle, refusing to give you any contributions in return…

Picture this: You've met the perfect girl! She's intelligent, funny, well-established in the community, and absolutely gorgeous! You take her on overseas trips, out for fancy dinners, and are constantly buying her gifts (well, why? because you can!)

5 months in and you're absolutely smitten and somehow the flags have remained green…until one day a flag rises, so crimson in color, that it's suddenly impossible to ignore…and you begin to debate whether it's been there all along!?

Context: You're Netflix and Chilling at her new apartment and catch your favourite cereal box in the corner of your eye, so naturally, you get up to pour yourself a bowl. But you're suddenly being stared down, hearing a quiet comment from across the room about her not wanting you to eat of all her food! WHAT?

With all the $$$ you've spent on her in the last 5 months, you could buy her 5 thousand boxes of cereal, but she can't spare you a portion from a 6$ box…surely not?

Now you're rethinking your whole relationship, forced to doubt her intentions… has this 'perfect girl'  been using you all along, or does she just really, really like Captain Crunch?

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  • We know breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but is it important enough to risk throwing away a perfectly good relationship?

    Well, that's for our readers to decide… Is this woman genuine and just made an uncalled-for comment in the spur of the moment? Or is this just one of many selfish traits beginning to slip through the cemented walls of the honeymoon phase?

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    www "From expensive dinners, to a trip, to going out a lot, which adds up, but I don't care, I like her and I like spending time with her"
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    How would you handle it if you realized the girl you’re seeing might be selfish

    I M27 have been seeing F26 for about 5 months now and it's been going great. I'm a giving person and thankfully
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    I'm in a place where I can do that financially. Shortly after we started seeing each other she got into a lot of obligations like
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    moving apts and stuff which costs a lot given that we live in a major city. I on the other hand loves to have fun so I told her even
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    though she's preached about 50/50, I'll cover things, and I have. From expensive dinners to a trip to going out a lot which adds up, but Idc, I like her and I like
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    spending time with her and rn I'm not financially hurting, thankfully. Last weekend we were out and she saw a tab of our drinks and
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    food and she was visibly shook then I jokingly told her one of these days she'll pick up the tab for the whole weekend and she
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    was visibly like "uh no" and we laughed it off Well today I came over to her place and saw a box of cereal I
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    love and told her I wanted a bowl and she made a comment along the lines of she doesn't want me to eat up her whole food. I was
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    like shook, but was like ok I guess I'll just order dinner. She came up to me and was like "so what's for dinnner?" And proceeded to start looking at places on Grubhub.
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    I normally wouldn't care that she wants dinner bc I want dinner too, but the fact that she wouldn't spare some cereal that
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    costs less than $6 for a box kinda upset me. I brought it up to her and she said that was a weird comment she made but she just
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    eating up her left overs and stuff. It really hurts that this is how she feels. It's also worth noting that I moved apts as well, so it's not like
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    I'm being inconsiderate, but it was one bowl of cereal. I'm I in the right for feeling how I feel or I'm I being an a ? Bc I really don't know how to feel
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    Few_Customer_7638 She either is just selfish or entitled which is a character flaw or she has some kind of trauma around $, either or will take a lot of therapy & her wanting to change those things on her own to solve. I would bring up the topic & ask to speak to her about it
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    before you just trash a relationship but I will say usually those things don't just get better, especially since she's out of that age group where you can kind of let those things slide & expect them to grow out of it.
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    No_Anteater8156 OP Yea we had a talk today, she admitted it wasn't right, but also in same tone said she doesn't want me getting comfortable eating her food...
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    But I don't wanna be that guy, but a bowl of cereal?? Months of using my funds to enjoy summer?? As much I hate to say it, I don't like feeling used and friends have done this to me in the past as well, so I'm no stranger to this
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    vipnac If you need to be on reddit to ask about a girl you're with it's a good sign things aren't what you think. I'd say a successful relationship would let you and her work things out. You're looking for excuses why it should work. If she's selfish and nice that contradicts itself.
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    Selfish people don't change they only become more selfish. If you want my advice dump her and go find a girl who loves you and respects you as a man and gives you all of the want and need you deserve.
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    Chiisora It really depends on how much you're willing to put up with which ultimately directly relates to how much you like her.
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    ICE_800709 Sorry Bud, she's doesn't like you for you, but what you're doing for her.
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    princessro123 you sound like a catch but you deserve better. fine that she can't afford to treat you the way you treat her but not sharing cereal is crazy
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