Selfish boyfriend secretly quit his job — and then expected his girlfriend to financially support them: ‘Get rid of that man-child'

New York Post

4 days ago

Oh no, he didn't.
A woman's boyfriend didn't tell her he quit his job — and then accused her of being unsupportive when she didn't want to pay the full rent they once split.
The frustrated girlfriend took to the r/AITA_WIBTA_PUBLIC Reddit forum to vent about her situation — which has since been deleted.
This boyfriend is the definition of a man-child.
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She explained how she and her boyfriend lived together and split the rent 50/50. While things at home seemed to be fine and dandy — the original poster started to notice that her man was home more than usual, especially during times when he should've been at work.
'Everything was going fine until a few weeks ago.' She wrote that she asked him what was going on and he sneakily replied, saying he 'was taking some time off.'
The OP had to learn of her boyfriend's impulsive decision to quit his job from their mutual friend.
'I asked him straight up, and yeah, turns out he just quit. No notice, no conversation with me. His reasoning was that he felt burned out and needed to reset,' she wrote.
This boyfriend was clearly only thinking about himself in this situation.
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'I'm not unsympathetic to that at all, but I feel like quitting your job without a plan or at least talking to the person you live with is a massive red flag,' her post read.
To make this situation even worse — the irrational boyfriend expected the OP to take on the financial burden of the couple's living situation while he was unemployed, by choice, and called her 'unsupportive' and 'selfish' when she refused.
'I told him I couldn't do that. I work full-time, pay my own bills, and I'm not in a position to carry both of us, especially not without a heads-up,' the OP wrote.
Alexa, play 'Manchild' by Sabrina Carpenter.
The post has over 1,000 comments from people who wholeheartedly support the OP — and not this wacky boyfriend.
'Time for him to move out and find someone (like his mom) who will put up with his nonsense. You thought you were in a relationship with an adult, but he's turned out to be a man-child who was just looking for sugar momma. The fact that he's just quit and not even tell you shows that he has no respect for you or how hard you're working.'
'Start paying his bills and I promise he will never 'figure things out' and you'll be covering his dumb a– forever. And he went crying to his mommy about it? So many red flags.'
'Get rid of that man-child. If he wanted shared finances, he should have gotten married.
If he's going to behave so stupidly, he should not be married.'
This isn't the first time the internet came after an irrational man.
A hardworking girlfriend shared in the r/AITA subreddit forum that she and her fiancé also split everything 50/50 and when she asked if they could hire a cleaning service to regularly, every weekday, come to their home — her boyfriend refused.
'When we first moved in, I took on most of the cleaning and cooking… but after months of juggling work, house chores, and cooking — sometimes even having to cook while in the middle of meetings — I burned out. Completely,' she relatably wrote.
She brought up this cleaning service idea, but 'He [her fiancé] got really upset and said it wasn't necessary, that I'm being lazy, and that I'm trying to avoid any responsibility for housework. That made me furious.'