The Breaking Points That Made Women Finally Leave Their Man-Child Partners

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“I was with a man-child for five years. I financially supported him in those five years as he chased his dreams. First, he wanted to get into art, but dropped out of school in the first week. Then he wanted to become a cook. He finished culinary school but was upset that no one would hire him as an executive chef, so he decided to pursue a career in tech. He was accepted into this amazing program that would pay him to take it, and it was only a year. He needed business attire and asked me if I would go to the store with him. We get up to the cash register, and when they tell him the total, he just stares at me. I look at him, confused, and he says, ‘Your card?’ I was caught off guard and didn’t know what to say, so I paid. When we left, I asked him why he didn’t pay, and he said, ‘I thought you would want to buy the clothes for me.'”

“Sadly, that wasn’t the last straw. The last straw was when he said he didn’t have enough money for gas to get to and from school, so I handed him one of my credit cards and told him to use it only for gas. A week later, I looked at my bank statements and saw multiple transactions for those electric scooters and big transactions with restaurants I’d never been to. Having forgotten who I gave my card to, I called my bank to inform them that it was fraudulent. They were reading back the transactions to me, and I realized they were all downtown. That’s when it dawned on me. I hung up with them and immediately called the man-child and confronted him about the transactions. He said, ‘All my friends can afford to pick up the tab, and I wanted to do it too so that I wouldn’t look like a loser.’ He was spending hundreds at restaurants to impress his ‘friends,’ who dropped him after he was kicked out of the program, with MY MONEY. And he never paid me back.”

—Anonymous