This 22-year-old woman and her 24-year-old girlfriend have been together for a little over a year. But when they started dating, they both had full-time jobs.
Then, five months later, her friend was finally discharged due to health reasons. Apparently, her friend suffers from an autoimmune disease that causes her to feel very tired and easily sick.
Since her friend lost her job, she has to cover most of her expenses herself.
“I paid her phone bill every three months and gave her money for food when she was hungry and when she wanted a new game/to fund her gambling addiction,” she explained.
But now her friend’s lack of income is becoming a problem – because she wants to change her living situation.
To illustrate, they do not currently live together. She lives alone in a house and wants to move to an apartment that is closer to her workplace.
“I commute to work four times a week for almost an hour and my girlfriend wants to move in with me,” she explained.
However, for all the apartments they looked at together, the tenants will have to pay almost three times the rent per month. And even though she already works 12-hour shifts four days a week, she simply won’t have enough money to cover all the costs on her own.
That’s why she was thinking about looking for a second job.
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