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She keeps the kids in a half‑day program, complains she can’t get enough done, and then blames him for not helping more. It’s the kind of circular logic that passes for modern relationship strategy. He can’t rest because she can’t work, and she can’t work because he’s working. A perfect little hamster wheel powered by guilt and overdue childcare forms. The intimacy drought just ties the economy together. Once someone feels like the provider instead of the partner, the temperature drops. You can almost hear the therapist softly suggesting “communication” while everyone quietly admits that the real issue is burnout.
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I (M35) feel like a "cash cow" for my GF (F38). She quit her job, refuses full-time childcare, demands marriage for security, and withdrew intimacy.
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Maybe they’ll fix it, maybe they won’t, but it’s a great snapshot of modern domestic economics — love turned logistical, affection turned transactional, two adults fighting to stay human while their relationship slowly turns into payroll.
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'I feel like a "cash cow"': German man feels used as his girlfriend quits stable job for failing business, refuses to send 2 and 4-year old kids to full-time childcare, and pressures him to marry for financial security
If a relationship hits that point where love starts feeling like an invoice, it's probably time to start rehearsing how you'll break up rather than planning a wedding rehearsal
This couple started out as most do, the early years are all laughter, shared dreams, maybe some shared nightmares over IKEA furniture assembly. Then one day, this guy wakes up, the bills have his name on them, and his partner is asking for long‑term financial security disguised as romance. It's not that marriage is the problem, it's realizing the proposal is being negotiated in the same tone as a loan.
Most of the time I'm the cynic, but here? With this story? Call me a romantic or call me naive, but this one's unacceptable to me. If you unknowingly move from a loving partnership to one sided financial support system, you can sign me out. And that's exactly what makes this one especially bleak: how normal it sounds. A man supports his partner's dream, she chases it, it flops, and the resentment starts seeping in like mold. The language she uses is spiritual, but the structure is corporate, investing other people's stability into something that was supposed to be freeing. It's capitalism dressed as self‑actualization, and he's footing the bill.
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