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What is a reasonable amount for your patter to pay

50 replies

01mol · 12/04/2018 22:29

My partner and I have been together for a number of years but last year after a number of false starts we agreed he would move in. I have a large house and earn a bit more than him but also hand my parents to living here in a self contained granny annex. I asked him for £350 a month. That covered all his food including lunches for work and a contribution towards heating lighting and other bills but not mortgage. (My bills excluding food and petrol and car etc are around £1400 a month). He said he thought that was too much as he wasn't making enough profit. (He had at this point rented two rooms out in his house for £620 a month). He said even £250 a month was too much his mother said as it didn't cost that much. I was flawedas o had thought that effectively he was able to save most of his salary. Am I being unreasonable? Since September he has only given me £250 plus bought wine (around £20 a week ) . It just makes me question whether I'm being taken for a fool.

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01mol · 12/04/2018 22:53

Just to correct he has given me £250 a month since September.

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C0untDucku1a · 12/04/2018 22:53

Wow! But after a fe false starts should have been the end.

HollowTalk · 12/04/2018 22:55

Why the HELL are intelligent women putting up with this crap? I just don't understand it at all.

Personally I would sue that bastard through the small claims court for money outstanding.

bastardkitty · 12/04/2018 22:57

Say goodbye to the nasty, robbing fucker.

Caucho · 12/04/2018 23:14

350 is fuck all but be prepared to hear why It’s terrible that a partner is having to pay towards someone else’s mortgage when in reality it probably doesn’t even cover half of the other bills. If you loved him he’d have a share of the house blah blah

trojanpony · 12/04/2018 23:18

So the relationship is over? You did the right thing he was taking the piss massively

Cricrichan · 12/04/2018 23:44

He's got his own house that is presumably rising in value plus has a rental income. So actually living with you is making him money!

SoapOnARoap · 13/04/2018 08:05

He really saw you coming!

You’ve done the right thing, kicking him into touch.

hellsbellsmelons · 13/04/2018 10:29

I'm glad you've ended it.
He had been taking you for a right mug.
How you can love someone who is prepared to screw you over is beyond me.
Get him gone by the weekend.
He can go and live with mummy.
BTW. When my ExP lived with me he paid £175 per WEEK!!!!!!
You are doing the right thing.
Don't be anybody's fool.

Adora10 · 13/04/2018 12:36

He definitely saw you coming, glad you got your wake up call, absolute user.

GreenFingersWouldBeHandy · 13/04/2018 16:55

Ouch.

Some posters are being a bit harsh.

Glad you have ended it as it does sound like he was using you, and that's a horrible feeling. How did he take it? Has he now moved out?

01mol · 13/04/2018 22:28

He has not taken it well and thinks we need to be back together and wants us to get married and buy our own place together as he misses all we had together. He says we can sort all the legal stuff .

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WishingOnABar · 13/04/2018 22:32

“All we had” was you paying everything and him profiting on his own house while getting a free ride

Do not let this cocklodger back, he is using you Flowers

privateporcupine · 13/04/2018 22:35

Had he ever expressed any interest in marrying you before now?

Popchyk · 13/04/2018 22:38

Of course he's not taken it well. He's clearly very upset that you are going to stop subsidising him. He must be in panic mode.

By "sort the legal stuff" he means that he wants to be able to claim half of your house plus the annexe.

What do you want? Your latest post was all about what he wants.

You'd be mad to take him back based on fake promises.

dirtybadger · 13/04/2018 22:41

"We are finished"

"No, we are getting married"

Absolute fucking classic.

NoSuchThingAsAlpha · 13/04/2018 22:42

OP, I assume he's offered to pay the money he's due you for the last few months?

Katchit · 13/04/2018 22:52

Itemise the bills, give him an invoice each month for his share. Keep a copy. Do not overbill him like a rent or contribution towards capital costs or he may establish a right over your property.

TyneTeas · 13/04/2018 23:06

But he had ample opportunity to sort it and chose not to.

It's like when you ask a kid to do something, then tell them, then say the consequence of them not doing it is they won't get to eg go to the park. And they still don't do it. So you tell them they aren't going to the park, then they cry and want another chance.

01mol · 13/04/2018 23:30

The last answer sums it up (but so do most of the others) . Each time I broke it off in the hope something would change (this has been in total a 7 year relationship ) but each time nothing has changed. As I loved him deeply I stuck with it but my patience has finally ebbed.

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Choclover27 · 13/04/2018 23:35

Stick to your guns. You love the man you want him to be, not the man he actually is.

TyneTeas · 13/04/2018 23:36

Sorry OP Flowers

Coyoacan · 14/04/2018 00:21

I'm so glad you finished with him, though I know it can't have been easy. I hate people who take advantage of other people's generosity like that. If he were broke, it would be another story.

SevenStones · 14/04/2018 18:50

Thank goodness you finished with him!

jaimelannistersgoldenhand · 14/04/2018 19:58

I think I'd piss my pants laughing if a grown adult said "But my mum said it's too much"

It's simple really.
Council Tax = £150, each adult pays £75
Electric= £80, each adult pays £40
and so on. £350 is a bloody bargain for everything (even food). You'd have loads of people buying your hand off for that kind of deal.

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