Hi, my partner and I have been together 5yrs and lived together for 3 of those.
We live in London and are paying rent currently. The rent is quite high and I recently had issues at work that led to me losing the job. She currently has two jobs, one remote permanent one along with her freelance work. I’m soon to start a new perm job, but her overall income is probably double mine. Her parents have been contributing to our rent, but recently she’s had an argument with them and made the decision to cut off their finances. She took on the extra amount for 2 months, but now I’m getting a new job, she wants to go halves.
I understand my responsibility to pay half and will do it, but am scared I will struggle. My main issue is I feel she has approached this situ without much nuance when addressing it with me and being very matter of fact.
She brought it up last night and I said I would struggle on the salary I’m about to get.
She took that badly and is now saying we should move out and live separately. She says this due to a build up of a couple other occasions where finances have been a talking point, I feel she’s being very extreme and you shouldn’t just jump to that.
Please can you give your thoughts? Do you think this is an overreaction?