RecessedChinCel
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Relationship issues: Am I being unreasonable?
Long story short my boyfriend and I have been together 1.5 years. I’m 31, he’s 45. I make roughly $40K and he makes over 3X’s as much as I do. Roughly $150K, but he’s in school getting ANOTHER advanced degree and I feel like once he’s done with this masters he may make even more. The problem...
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Long story short my boyfriend and I have been together 1.5 years. I’m 31, he’s 45. I make roughly $40K and he makes over 3X’s as much as I do. Roughly $150K, but he’s in school getting ANOTHER advanced degree and I feel like once he’s done with this masters he may make even more.
The problem: I have voiced to him many times that I could care less to work a traditional job, and that my dream in life has always been to become a stay at home mom and become a homemaker once I wed and have children. He has made it clear that he is HUGE on women working, having a great education, having a high paying career, and does not value stay at home moms at all. He has said many times that if and when he gets married he wants his wife to work. End of story.
Lately we have seriously been discussing marriage and kids (as early as 2023) so naturally this topic has been brought up a lot lately. For the most part my boyfriend is a great man, treats me well, gives me money, and is very supportive of me. Truly wonderful man to be honest. However, I am still considering ending the relationship due to our differences in family values. I honestly have started to resent him because no matter how much I express my desire to stay at home and raise my future kids he doesn’t give a shit. He keeps saying he would want me to work.
For reference, my boyfriend doesn’t know how to cook A SINGLE MEAL. Nothing! If I needed him to make a pot of spaghetti he would have no clue where to start. He is very dirty, very messy and doesn’t know how to clean (he pays for a maid like once a month but inbetween her visits his house gets dirty), he BARELY knows how to do laundry (When I met him he would literally shrink and accidentally bleach stuff because he had no clue how to properly do laundry, it was a mess) and overall he doesn’t know how to do ANYTHING other than make money. He has a great career and makes good money but that’s literally all he’s gifted at.
Me on the other hand I am a
Jack-of-all-trades. I can cook EXCEPTIONALLY well and have had many friends/family suggest I become a chef because I can cook so well. I cook everything from scratch, and damn good. Im tooting my own horn but I’m a beast at cooking. l’m pretty organized, and I know how to keep a very clean house. I know how to do laundry, I’m great with money management, I could easily manage the household bills (hell I even have a 790 credit score), and I have even worked as a personal assistant before so setting up appointments, taking kids to extracurricular activities, all of that stuff I can easily handle. Basically I can do all of the things he cannot! I’m pretty sure I can run a home with my eyes closed. I might suck at making money, and I don’t have a “high paying career” but I make up for it in every other aspect. My boyfriend just built a home last year and he pays all of the bills no problem. His home is absolutely gorgeous, and he literally doesn’t need my money at all. He drives a nice Benz, still has money for vacations, and needs no help financially. I explained to him recently how unequal our roles would be if we had kids and he didn’t seem to care. I would be the only one cooking, cleaning, doing the laundry, would likely do most of the childcare, AND WOULD STILL BE EXPECTED TO WORK 40 HOURS A WEEK. Wtf. He was totally unmoved when I explained this.
Am I wrong for wanting to break up with him? I know it’s uncommon for black women stay home, but I don’t care! That’s my dream. He’s an amazing man, he treats me wonderfully, he’s loving, patient, kind, etc. but I cannot get past how selfish this feels. I feel like if we got married/had kids I would be run ragged and he’d just be chilling. It honestly infuriates me.
This nigga is literally making 150k a year yet this foidbot thinks being a stay at home mom is a harder job jfl.