A young couple discovered they had vastly different paychecks while working at the same company before getting engaged. After the engagement, the young woman wanted to quit her job, leading social media users to believe she was a gold-digger, but her fiancé says that’s not the case.
Reaching out to the AITAH subreddit, a 30-year-old engaged man wanted advice on a difficult situation he was facing and feeling bad about. He explained that he, a researcher in a big tech firm, met his fiancée two and half years ago at their joint workplace during an event.
The original poster (OP) was utterly smitten by the 26-year-old, and he asked her out.
Their relationship has been excellent so far, and what he loves about the woman who works in marketing is that she’s very organized. The woman’s job involved her working on marketing events and planning, and she iss good at it, making him proud of her.
However, her work sometimes required her to work long hours, while his office desk job hours were more predictable, and he generally didn’t work late. His fiancée complained often about how easy he had it while she had to drive around to get things done.
OP also revealed that he’s neurodivergent (ADD) and struggles with simple things, which is one of the reasons he loves her because she assists him with anything that requires organization.
He described her as patient and making his life better in many ways.
OP’s partner moved in with him at one point, and that was the first time they discussed finances. Circumstances led to him having a good compensation package, and while she knew he was financially stable, she was shocked when she learned how much he made.
He was surprised when he discovered he makes 15 times more than her! OP offered to pay for everything related to staying together and said she could focus on saving to pay her student debt, which she’d paused at the time.
The Reddit user owns their apartment, but his fiancée, who, at the time, was his girlfriend, still wanted to contribute something, so they split their expenses proportionately to what each person earned.
The arrangement worked well for OP’s partner as she is a self-sufficient and independent woman.
A month before his Reddit post, OP got engaged to his girlfriend. Although she’s never asked him for anything expensive, she requested a diamond engagement ring costing almost $15,000. OP found it uncomfortable spending that much, but she convinced him it was worth it because she’d wear it for the rest of her life.
He added that whenever she showed the ring to anyone, she often attempted to mention the cost of the ring in the conversation.
That made OP quite uncomfortable, and he told her many times to stop, but she still did it. The day before he put up his post, OP’s fiancée asked him to sit next to her on the couch to discuss something important.
She informed him of her plan to quit her job the following month after giving her 15-day notice. Shocked, he asked what was wrong, and she told him she wished to plan their wedding, which would take a lot of time.
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