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AITAH for telling my girlfriend she can't complain about my work hours when I'm paying all the bills?
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Dinner plans, birthday parties, weekend hangs, all get sacrificed on the altar of “there’s an emergency at work.” She’s fed up and calls him out for making job stuff a higher priority than actual breathing human relationships. His comeback is the classic pay-for-play: nice apartment, fridge full, Wi-Fi humming along, what’s the problem?
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Now she’s at her friend’s place. He’s getting advice from a buddy who probably hasn’t washed his own work mug in three years. It’s classic couple math, one side throws down all the cash, the other wants more facetime and less laptop glow. Everyone’s annoyed, nobody’s winning, and dinner’s still cold.
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Relationships and tech jobs mix like oil and water. Some people want home-cooked meals and shared time, others just need a power nap and the sweet sound of paid bills. If there was a way to patch romantic tension, this guy would probably build a firewall for it. But for now it’s bill pay, burnout, and reruns of “I’m working late again.”
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‘Someone's gotta keep the lights on’: Man pays full $2,800 rent and covers every expense, working 70-hour workweeks in cybersecurity, while girlfriend contributes $200 monthly and complains about him never being around
This hardworking cybersecurity guy can't catch a break. Work gobbles up every hour, bills stack up, and fun gets canceled more often than a sketchy software update. He pays for everything, rent, groceries, all the treats, while his girlfriend runs retail shifts and brings home a little rent money each month. Lately she's decided she's dating a ghost who only exists to refresh browser tabs and grumble about hackers.
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