📝 AITAH for leaving my girlfriend (25F) because I (21M) can't handle the stress of taking care of her.

By Hot-Tamales69 • Score: 3 • April 6, 2025 6:51 AM


To give a little more detail, I have been with her for a little over a year and a half, both of us had our struggles with addiction and after a couple months of dating we both became sober. After hitting rock bottom with her and deciding to try and get our lives together I went and got a minimum wage job at Taco Bell, and started providing for the both of us and her 4 animals (3 cats and a dog) seeing as though I just started working on my addiction problems and generally trying to improve my life, there were some hiccups and I ended up hopping from job to job, but I always had a paycheck and made sure expenses were paid. She claimed to have been "trying" to get a job, but never succeeded. I brought her to maybe a total of 5 interviews over the 1 1/2 years of being together and all fell through, things had started to become more challenging and I pleaded with her to find some way to make an income. The closest that came to that was her frequently asking friends for gas money, and we occasionally sold explicit content, but in my opinion it wasn't enough, and I felt like no effort was being made to getting a real job. There were frequent arguments between us because she was always complaining about being bored, and not being able to go out to parties or hanging out with friends, but that was because we didn't have the money to. Our most recent argument (tonight) ended in a screaming match, and she smacked her head into the wall multiple times, leaving giant holes and she fell unconscious due to it. I decided that I couldn't put up with it anymore, and broke up with her. I moved out of the place we lived in together quite quickly while she went out to a party with her friends, and moved back in with my mother. I don't even know if this will make sense but I just need some clarification on whether I AM an asshole for this or not, I'm an emotional wreck right now and feel like maybe things could have been handled differently, but at the same time I need to get my life in order and cant with her holding me back.

Any questions will be answered.

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