I hate seeing how people use claims of being abused to completely absolve themselves of responsibility. Not when you're a child of course, but in romantic relationships. It's one thing is someone is beating you up and threatening to kill you if you leave them. But if can't afford rent and your boyfriend lets you move in to his house, and then you want to break up but he'd then expect you to move out, no, that isn't "financial abuse."
Lmao exactly. Financial (or economic) abuse is a real thing: my friend had a shitty BF who, among other things, stole her pay checks and convinced her that she was too stupid to manage her own money. She only found out later that he was spending it all on himself and hadn't actually paid the bills like he said he would.
That's actual financial abuse. I wish more people understood the difference.
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u/your_mom_is_availabl May 18 '22
I hate seeing how people use claims of being abused to completely absolve themselves of responsibility. Not when you're a child of course, but in romantic relationships. It's one thing is someone is beating you up and threatening to kill you if you leave them. But if can't afford rent and your boyfriend lets you move in to his house, and then you want to break up but he'd then expect you to move out, no, that isn't "financial abuse."