For context we both work-at the time I was part time on min wage and he was full time on a lot more money so we’ve always done it as I pay for food and bits for the house-he pays everything else (it works for us)
Anyway his daughter (aged 18) came to live with us and just point blank refused to get a job-and was very good at playing mum off against dad-and mum is one of those who loves to score points and cause trouble
She came very close to breaking us up at the time
We where rowing one night and he screamed ‘I pay the fucking rent!’
He will never know how much that hurt as I really couldn’t get more hours at work and I was trying so hard to pay my way-it’s not like I sat at home watching tv all day while he worked every hour god sent
To make it worse she was sat at the top of the stairs,live streaming all this to her mother who spent months phoning us and screaming ‘get her out! (me) she doesn’t pay the f*cking rent!’
His daughter moved out and back to her mother within the week-it was her or me
Oddly,we’ve not rowed since she stomped out and we are stronger than ever
He’ll just never know how much that one comment hurt