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AITAH for “leaving” my ex gf to pay rent she can’t afford?
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Handing someone a rent breakdown feels like handing them a life vest, and watching them throw it overboard because it clashes with their outfit. She had three exits available, a roommate, a studio, or moving back with family, and rejected all three like a picky eater sending back a perfectly fine meal because the plate touched the vegetables.
Then, naturally, the expensive apartment she fought so hard to keep started acting expensive. Groundbreaking stuff. It’s the financial equivalent of adopting a lion cub, ignoring everyone who says “that thing grows up,” and then acting stunned when it’s eating the furniture.
The best part is looping the breakup itself into the budget crisis, like getting back together would magically make rent cheaper. That’s not love, that’s treating an ex like a walking discount code that expired the second they moved out.
None of this makes the guy some kind of financial hero. He just did the one job available to him, which was telling the truth about numbers that don’t lie no matter how mad you get at them. Being correct about math has never once made anyone popular, and it’s definitely not starting now.
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