📝 She doesn't like it that I don't work as much as she does

By Desperate-Baker-6837 • Score: 2 • April 15, 2025 5:57 AM


I'm 67(m) and I've been dating this hardworking 65 (f) now about 7 months. We met online and really hit it off and were very passionate with each other for the first 4 months. But this issue of about how she works much more than I do is becoming a problem. I am semi-retired, collecting Social Security, and I work one day a week to supplement my income at a business that allows me to live in an on site apartment for free. So my living expenses are very low. Unfortunately from my divorce 5 years ago I lost my house and my retirement money so all I have is basically the cash flow from my Social Security and working one day a week. It still allows me money to travel and participate in recreational activities basically 6 days a week. The woman I am dating however works 2 days a week as a part-time realtor and another 3 days a week as a hair stylist. She does great and is busy as a hair stylist and manages to have a fairly steady stream of buyers and sellers for her real estate business. The problem lies in the fact that she works so much more than I do that I feel that she is becoming resentful of it by the way she talks to me. I'll tell her what I'm doing for the week and she'll say things like, " well some of us have to work for a living, you enjoy your toys and play time. I work for a living." She doesn't say it exactly like that but I think you understand the tone that she is giving out. We had a talk about it one time and she said that because I basically don't have any retirement money I should be working very hard and saving as much as I can. I feel like I can save something but I'll never be able to buy a house again and I definitely won't be able to save enough to live on solely money I have saved for later years. I feel that while I still have my health and energy I'm going to travel and do the things I've always wanted to do before I physically will not be able to do it. She has told me that that is a big problem in our relationship that my finances are not what hers are. Am I being unreasonable ? I feel she basically resents the fact that while she's working I'm playing. Am I being a TAH in this situation?

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