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Why Women Expect Financial Support
Acting like wives when you’re just roommates
Theoretically, women and men are equals and so the give and take in a relationship should be balanced. However, the reality is often different. This leads to partners feeling resentful. A huge issue is the lack of communication. People don’t want to risk losing their partner, so they don’t honestly express themselves early on.
Which is understandable, but stupid.
The longer you let a problem fester, the worse it will get. What could have been easily addressed early on causes such emotional wreckage that only the emotional equivalent of a nuclear blast will suffice. At that point, the relationship is in rubble and there’s no hope left for salvage.
Women often assume when a couple lives together, it is a dress rehearsal for marriage. This is a bad assumption to make.
If a man wants to marry you, he will marry you.
He might suggest you live together first. That is fine, but before you agree, if marriage is important to you, then agree on a timeframe beforehand and stick to it.
This is not you being needy or unloving or demanding. It is you being honest. If you need to be married then be upfront about it.
