Abeera Anwar
Dating someone should be about love, connection, and shared experiences—not silently tallying receipts in your head. But when one partner earns four times more than the other and still never offers to pay for anything, those receipts start to feel heavy. I never considered myself a gold digger, and I pride myself on being generous in relationships. But after months of footing the bill for every dinner, every movie, things are starting to feel… unbalanced. I’m not asking for handouts, but is it too much to expect a little financial give-and-take in a relationship?
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I love her, I really do. We’ve been together for a year and, on most fronts, we’re happy. But love doesn’t pay the bills, and romance starts to fade when one person is quietly drowning in debt while the other is investing thousands without a second thought. I don’t want resentment to poison what we have, but I also can’t keep pretending that this imbalance isn’t slowly chipping away at my comfort—and maybe even my self-worth. The question is… how do I say all this without sounding like the very thing I fear being labeled: a gold digger?
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