Hardworking employee catches her boyfriend draining $2400 from their joint savings account to buy himself a watch: 'Four months of me eating crackers for dinner so he could feel rich'

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• Found out the 'we' in 'we should save more' meant only me.

  Spent four months skipping lunches, canceling the gym, telling my friends I "wasn't drinking right now" so I could throw an extra $600 a month into our joint savings. The plan was a house. Our house. I made a spreadsheet. I color-coded it. I won $2000 on Stake. Deposited it to our shared account.

• Went to check the balance today because I wanted to feel something nice for once. The savings were down, not up. He'd been pulling from it. Sneakers. A "watch he'd wanted for a while." A weekend I was told was a work trip. Four months of me eating crackers for dinner so he could feel rich.

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• The worst part isn't even the money. It's that I genuinely believed we were building the same thing. I was budgeting for a future and he was funding a vibe.

• Anyway I closed the spreadsheet, opened my own account, and moved my next paycheck somewhere with my name and only my name on it. Chicken wrap because I'm not skipping dinner for this man ever again.

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• There's no worse feeling than the gut-wrenching pit in your stomach after a betrayal. Stinging behind your eyes and tugging at the strings in your throat, betrayal hurts far worse when it hits close to home. Luckily for this woman, she found out early enough in her relationship that her boyfriend is totally useless when it comes to money. 

  I don't know if that changes the way her heart feels about him, but it certainly changes the way she'll be saving her money: solo and in her own private access account.

  Perhaps this is a lesson to all of us: next time we think about skipping out on lunch to save a little bit of skrilla, let's be sure we're on the same page with our entire household, and they're not off buying luxury goods and shiny new shoes.

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• Excellent_Drop6869

  Time to withdraw your savings from your shared account

• Useful_Honey96

  Exactly I wouldn’t say ANYTHING, withdraw the money he stole and block him.

  Or before blocking him, tell him that you’ll take him to small claims court to get your money back.

• Ok_Community_9805

  I’d ask for my money back. No way you’re spending my money in our joint savings on some bs. Good on you to open a separate account and redirect your paychecks.

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