Call it life, call it no longer being able to stand your lover’s habit of clipping his/her toenails anywhere he/she wants, but unless you live a fairytale life, there comes a time when some relationships just have to end. Whether it was bound to happen, the stress of living “in this economy” probably did not help the relationship last, especially if the dynamic consisted of one person working and secretly hating their unemployed significant other for getting to sleep in. When it’s time to finally call it quits, the former couple is left to make the tough decision of who has to move out in order to move on.
Normally, a break up involving a live-in couple would involve someone throwing all their ex’s belonging out the window while yelling, “And stay out!” because that’s how normal is portrayed in movies. However, in these “difficult economic times”, a move like that could prove drastic for both parties. If the person staying put is unemployed or fearful of losing their job, chances are being left with the task of paying full rent or the mortgage would result in eviction or foreclosure. For the person who would typically be thrown out, finding a new place without a job or signing a new lease knowing a current job could very well end the next day, could ultimately result in living in a storage unit with their scattered belongings, slumming it with friends, or worse: moving back home with the parents where mom won’t stop speculating about what went wrong.
In the end, more and more ex-couples are finding themselves financially dependent on one another – at least in terms of their living situation. Clothes might be tossed out the window, but then hurriedly reclaimed when the tosser realizes homelessness or other alternatives might be worse off than awkwardly learning to live with an ex. There are plenty of things to discuss such as who is going to sleep where, or if there’s only one bed – whether it can still be shared, how nagging rights are out the window since such investments are no longer relevant, and how they can explain to friends and family about how living together after breaking up is not as crazy as it seems even though secretly they know it is. Sucking it up and taking one for the money team is about all the unemployed can do in such a situation – but the minute either party starts dating, it’s time to turn up the sugar daddy/mama search up a notch and find someone new to hole up with, which everyone knows is the best way to heal.
Tags: avoiding reality, desperate and unemployed, in this economy, living with an ex, tough times call for awkward measures
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Hilarious, because one of my friends is currently living with his ex AND her new guy. And babysitting their kids.
Haha, I feel bad for him, because I know
Yeah I have to live with my ex because I cannot afford to pay for school and my necessities along with rent bills, it’s like i’m living in “The Break Up.” I totally get Jennifer Aniston.
My (employed) ex basically 1 day decided he got tired of me not being successful so even before I graduated–grad date: 6/09, he decided that he wanted me out of his house after 5 years. It was his idea for me to go back to school after I quit my job for Hurr Katrina ( my employer wouldn’t let me go home to take care of my parents who couldn’t speak English). I didn’t want to because I really didn’t want to depend on him, but he promised he will support me no matter what. I questioned him for 2 months giving him all sorts of scenarios…even this one. Stupid me, I believed him. He didn’t even allow me to temp store my 6 med boxes in his garage. I did however graduate with a 3.9 gpa….but of course still no permanent job. When it rains, it pours. I do however, can hold my head up high, because even though he treated me like shit, I can confidently say that I left that relationship with integrity and grace. I left him a vase of his favorite flowers and the house keys right next to it. I ended up sleeping in my friend’s living room floor with a parka on b/c we couldn’t afford heating. Ladies and gents, trust your guts. If he/she seems unstable, he/she probably is.
My ex and my kids moved in with me and my girlfriend.
Shortly after the girlfriend moved out. My ex and I share my king
sized bed, and I am at my girlfriends most of the time. Yet, my
girlfriend feels I will never be able to get rid of my ex because
she has so many bills and judgements on her that she can’t move
out. The ex and I still undress and dress in front of each other.
We sleep in the same bed, but we are not romantic or sexual. I have
been in contact as well with a girlfriend I had several years ago.
She remembers we broke up because of my ex, who I was separated
from then. I am not sure how to get rid of my ex, to be honest. But
I do know that it has not helped having her around when I have
tried to have other relationships.