I\u2019ve been with my girlfriend for 4 years. In that time, I covered about 99% of all our expenses. Rent, groceries, dates, trips\u2014you name it, I paid for it. I didn\u2019t mind. I thought of it as part of loving her and building a future together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The other day, she wanted a bubble tea. Just $10. But I had forgotten my wallet, and my phone battery had died. So, for once, I asked her if she could cover it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She frowned, sighed, and reluctantly pulled out her card. I brushed it off at the time. But the next morning, she looked at me and said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHey, don\u2019t forget to pay me back that $10 from yesterday.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n I froze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After four years of me paying nearly everything without complaint, she couldn\u2019t let one small moment go. It wasn\u2019t the money\u2014it was the principle. It showed me that in her mind, things weren\u2019t mutual. That she wasn\u2019t willing to step up, even in the smallest way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It made me question everything. Love should be about give and take, not one person carrying the weight while the other keeps score.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That $10 bubble tea was cheap\u2014but the lesson it gave me was priceless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019ve been with my girlfriend for 4 years. In that time, I covered about 99% of all our expenses. Rent, groceries, dates, trips\u2014you name it, I paid… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}