Boyfriend wants me to ask for support and not just give?

Anonymous

Before you judge me, just know that it’s not about the money. It’s just the fact that I feel like he either wants me to ask him for help because he likes me to ask, even though I say all the time I don’t like asking for money, or he just doesn’t really want to help me any.

He works in my brothers company and makes about $1500 a week. I have two toddlers that he accepted as his own when we started our relationship. He says how he’d move mountains for them and he loves them. But when he gets paid he’ll say if I need anything, I say I’m fine at the moment, but slightly disappointed he doesn’t want to just send me anything just to make sure I’m good. I mean I’m a mom with two babies I go to school full time and I tell him how I struggle constantly. He knows I’m broke I say how I struggle all the time. And he talks about going to dinner and getting oysters etc while I have zero to my name, and I’m used to being broke it’s fine. I guess if roles were reversed I would want him to feel better about himself if he was broke or I would want us to both be up and not struggle. It’s the third or fourth time he’ll ask and not send anything even after I’ve said it’s hard to ask, and when I’ve asked before he sent me $20 and then a $10 that was it. Yes I assume you’ll tell me “just ask him” I know he’ll send it if I ask. But that’s not the point I’m talking about. I just want to feel like he does it because he cares whether I ask or not. Opinions?

Boyfriend wants me to ask for support and not just give?
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