acrosstheuniverse Posted April 13, 2015 Posted April 13, 2015 As long as he can support himself, has a job and doesn't live at home, I'm okay with it. I was horrible with money in the past although I'm okay with it now. But I would want to see that things were gonna get better in the future, I would wanna see a plan in place to earn more, become more responsible with money etc. I clawed my way up from crappy minimum wage retail jobs to being a qualified health professional earning double through bloody hard work, and now I earn a good wage and can take care of myself I wouldn't wanna settle down with somebody who couldn't bring similar to the table, even if they didn't earn as much as I did. I want a family someday and don't wanna struggle through poverty like I experienced as a kid. Not asking mega bucks, just to be equal with me. But I can empathise with being generally bad with money as I've been there myself struggling with low paid jobs and not being able to make ends meet so I know how easy it is to get to that point. It's actually a bonus for my boyfriend and I we've both had such bad money troubles in the past because we know how it feels and how difficult it was to avoid, when jobs are scarce, insecure and low paid, and neither of us had mum or dad's home to run back to. So we don't judge and aren't put off by the poor credit rating lol. Now I'm qualified in my field and he's a couple months away from having similar earning power to me, neither of us are ever gonna be wealthy and owning a home is outta the question for years to come. But we should earn enough to pay the bills, get food, run a car, have some fun and go places we wanna go to and have some left over to save a little each month for emergencies. That's all I want, I don't care about being rich I just feel lucky now having a life where I know what my next pay packet will say and I don't stay awake all night panicking about the electricity being cut off. I only earn national average now (although quite a lot more than my city's average wage) but coming from minimum wage, it feels like riches.
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