Would you think this is really bad or not? GF paying BF’s rent

[JudyMoonlight]

Friend having a bit of a moan about housemates and it came up in the conversation that one of them is paying her BF’s rent (as well as her own). The GF lives in the flat with my friend and he lives somewhere else. She’s a student and he’s in a graduate job. I was a bit but my friend didn’t think it was that weird. She works part time so I don’t think it’s because she’s loaded. It’s none of my business obviously! But I’d be interested in other people’s opinions and whether you’d do this.

He's clearly a cocklodger who has taken his cock somewhere else!

I think she's an idiot. Of course it's weird. Why would you pay someone else's rent for them - particularly if you don't even live together?

In an established couple who share a home I can see that this arrangement might be sensible but I don't understand why anyone would pay rent for someone who lived elsewhere. I'm a bit confused about how she can afford this on a part time graduate salary.

Perhaps they have an arrangement that suits both of them?
Perhaps a legally drawn contract to protect their future finances
Perhaps it's their business

Unless she is being forced to do this against her will I don't think anyone can judge ?

Kylie sorry I wasn’t clear, she is a student and works part time. He is on a graduate salary.

How can a part-time worker pay 2 lots of rent? Just how is that possible?

What does the bf do?

To contribute to bills I mean

Well there's clearly more to it. Someone working part time and paying two lots of rent - either there's family money, some convoluted arrangement or she's putting half her life on credit card etc.

On the face of it, I’d say he’s a CF

Is anyone else thinking of that song by the Pet Shop Boys.

@66babe

Perhaps they have an arrangement that suits both of them? Perhaps a legally drawn contract to protect their future finances Perhaps it's their business

Unless she is being forced to do this against her will I don't think anyone can judge ?

Who would enter a legally drawn contract to pay someone else's rent for them? Contracts aren't actually enforceable against the mentally impaired...

Maybe he is her sugar baby xD

@GreyhoundG1rl of course no one is going to turn up at a legal facility and say oh please let me pay his rent ... please don't be facetious

What I meant was that perhaps ???? He could have borrowed her a sum of money previously and this is now the arrangement for it to be paid back
On paper ... for open and honest protection of both of them
Has she been travelling? Borrowed money to a family member ?

Has anyone just asked her ?

I agree he's possibly just a shit but no one should have such fixed "he's a cock" view when we don't have a bloody clue on the circumstances

Too little to go on really. There may be a reason she's doing it that makes sense. It's unusual but I wouldn't jump to "bad" without knowing a bit more.

I'm not sure I would believe her. Part time job , pays own rent, how on earth would she pay someone else's rent too?

Perhaps she's moaned about BF in an exaggerated way "I have to pay for EVERYTHING " when she actually means she pays for more than she wants to/ thinks she should? Maybe she helped him with his rent one time for some reason and now resents it? Dunno really. It doesn't make sense.

You know so few of the details that it's impossible to say. Maybe there's a good reason. It sounds crazy.