My girlfriend says she doesn’t like that I don’t work and don’t do anything to “develop myself”. I have passive income that’s more than enough for us to live rather comfortably in the city I live in. I pretty much support her at the moment, as well as myself, but she says she doesn’t want to get a job because I don’t have one, and that annoys her that I’ll be able to sit at home and do what I want or just be busy with my hobbies.

I told her that I’m not forcing her to work, and even if she does work, she would only have to work like 2 days a week, not even a lot, but she says that it would bug her that I’m just sitting at home.

I get that she has the right to want someone who has ambition, but I also have the right to just live on what I have.

I told her that I’m willing to cook and clean and do most of the house work, but she says that she can do all of that by herself.

I’m assuming this is a Nobody Is the asshole situation?

  • Spacehooks@reddthat.comEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I would love if my partner was free to be home but I also wouldn’t want my SO to do nothing but chores and gym all day because humans need creative stimulation. If she is like me, learning a “productive hobby” like carpentry, programming, 3d modeling, even stock market trading could but what she needs to see. Give her a chance to see if something like this could work. If not, then it could be the standard pride issue. You’re free and Im not. Or lifes not good enough but I dont want to put the effort when you lucked out.

    Seen similar story before where op was a writer living off passive income and bf hated his job and didn’t like how she didn’t suffer like he did.

    https://lemmit.online/post/5891866