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Stop Moving In With Boyfriends When You Have No Savings
This is an epidemic at this point.
I’m part of a women’s group on Facebook that has over 30K members. It’s supposed to encapsulate women of all ages in the Los Angeles area, however it’s mostly women under 40. Weekly, there is a post about a woman who cannot officially leave her live-in boyfriend because she has no money.
This is a regular occurrence.
I can almost bank on seeing a post like this as soon as I open the app. Here’s an example of a recent one:
“If you took a chance and moved across the country to California for your boyfriend, only to find out at the end of the year that he cheated on you the first three months because, “He didn’t know if it was going to work out.” You have no resources and no friends in California and no money to get back. What would you do?”
More often than not, these women cannot afford to move, they can’t live on their own, they have no savings at all, no friends, and no family members to bail them out. My jaw is literally on the floor with how much this is a normalcy.
They might be estranged from their family, or simply don’t want to live back home. They somehow didn’t save a penny during their tenure with the boyfriend and finding roommates seems to be out of the…
