📝 AITAH for not wanting to financially contribute more than 50% in my relationship?

By Additional-Issue-941 • Score: 2 • April 23, 2025 12:33 AM


I (23F) have been dating my boyfriend (31M) for about 6 months now. I have a well-paying job and make about 20k more than him a year. He still makes a very respectable salary (around 90k) but has a higher cost of living due to more expensive rent, car payments, etc. Since the beginning of our relationship, we’ve split the costs of our dates very evenly. Usually I’ll pay for one dinner/event and he’ll pay for the next. Last month, we had a discussion about our income and ever since then I feel like he’s been hesitant to contribute his share. He doesn’t like taking me out to eat much anymore and if we do he just complains about how expensive it is even if I just dropped $150 the night before on us. It’s gotten to the point where he’s asked me to buy toilet paper, trash bags, detergent, and other household stuff for him since I use them while I’m at his place (I’m over there about 10 days a month). Sometimes, after he’s paid for a dinner for us, he’ll have me “repay him” by buying groceries for the week (I do eat some of these while with him). We also like to camp a lot and he’s been sending me camping items on Amazon that he wants me to buy for “us” even though I have no use for them. On our last camping trip, we took my car and I bought $80 worth of groceries, spent $60 on gas on the way there, and $100 on a last minute Airbnb. However, on the drive home, he didn’t want to pay for gas since we had used his camping equipment and that was his “contribution to the trip”. He even gets on me for taking too long of showers while I’m over since the water bill might be “too high”. What really frustrates me is how liberally he spends money in other regards. He’s big into guns and just dropped 2.5k a few weeks ago on a new purchase and has spend hundreds on other various “fun” items. I don’t care what he spends his money on, I’m just frustrated that he’s expecting me to pick up his slack financially in our relationship. Am I the asshole here?

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