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Im sitting here bored and pissed because my boyfriend has four days off from work. He slept the entire day for the first day, the second day he slept half the day while we hung out, now today he's asleep again. And he said he wasn't tired, but he always sleeping. Its really getting on my nerves. What should I do to keep me from being bored? How should I react to him when he wakes up?

My boyfriend is currently having a rough time financially. He's been getting fewer hours at his part-time job, and though he's been trying, he hasn't had any success finding new work. It's not that he isn't ambitious - he is, and I see how much it hurts him to not be able to support himself. That said, I feel money is putting a strain on our relationship.

I try to be understanding of his situation by walking very long distances with him when he doesn't have transportation money, and thinking up as many low-cost things to do together as possible. However, low-cost isn't free, and he so rarely has money that I pick up the tab any time we do anything at all. Even when we don't go out, we cook dinner with my groceries, watch movies on the Netflix account that I pay for so we won't be bored out of our minds, or I cave and get us a few beers or something.

The problem is that I don't make all that much money either. My budget is a little tight for one person, let alone two. I'm getting bored of sitting around watching movies all the time, and there aren't a ton of free things to do in the wintertime. Plus, though I know it's not his fault, I secretly long to go out on an actual date - even just going dutch sounds good right now. On top of that, I feel like I constantly have to defend him to my friends and family members who feel that a real boyfriend should take his girl out and buy her things.

Basically, am I doing the right thing by supporting him indefinitely, even though it's a strain on my finances? Or is this relationship doomed to failure unless he magically gets a job?