My girlfriend sent money to her ex?

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My girlfriend (21F) and I (23M) have been seeing each other for almost a year now. She doesn't work and is finishing up her final year of college. I love her very much and up until this point, I haven't mind helping her out financially and giving her some spending money. I give her the money for her to spend on herself and for her to do little nice things for her family

The issue that I have is that an issue that we've been having in our relationship is that she will occasionally speak to/help out her ex whenever he reaches out to her for help. This wouldn't bother me so much if I wasn't the one that was providing her with a significant amount of the money that she has. Recently she told me that her ex reached out to her and asked her for $250 and she sent it to him. This hurt because she claims that he told her that he was going to repay her double (which he's never done before and I'm 99% sure he doesn't work)

She already knows how I feel about that person but for her to be sending the money that I give to her to him, that hurts a lot. It Money doesn't fall from the sky and I don't want to be funding that man's life. It already bothers me a ton that she still speaks to this person despite us being in a relationship. This is a repeated thing where she ends up doing things financially that I don't agree with. Whenever I tell her that I'm done giving her money or anything like that, she gets really upset. At this point, I am done giving her spending money. Whatever happens, happens. This is the straw that broke the camel's back. The next time I do something like this for her, we'll have to be married

Am I overreacting? Is this a reasonable stance to make? I want to be assertive and not budge from this. I recently confessed to her that I was looking at things that I shouldn't be looking at online, and she told me that was cheating and was worse in comparison to her sending hundreds of dollars to her ex. I didn't talk to anyone else or do anything with them.

My girlfriend sent money to her ex?
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