• pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    My partner literally had to send her mother our budget and attached bank statements to illustrate how we could struggle to pay the bills even with 3 jobs between the 2 of us.

    I will say she finally got it - that you can work hard and scrimp and save, and still come up short.

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      11 months ago

      It sucks that it took all that for her to understand, but it shows great character that she came around to understand things from your perspective.

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        11 months ago

        Thank you and well said. She’s by no means a bad person. I like her a lot. it’s just the last job she had was as a nurse in the 80s in London; meanwhile, her husband had the same job for 40 years, so her perspective is way out-of-date with reality.