Quote Originally Posted by KSH View Post
I'm curious... how do you have more money when you are single? I typically have less...cause I don't have a man paying for my meals. HA!
It's actually a sad, long story ...

I was engaged and had been living with my boyfriend for a year. He moved here from New Jersey after graduating college. I paid for everything but his car insurance.

He was supposed to be figuring out what he wanted to do with his career, but instead he worked in retail for a low wage. He kept promising he would get a better job or go back to school (he got a bachelor's degree on academic scholarship), and I believed his excuses for the 12 months we lived together. Finally I found out that he had been hiding credit card bills from me, and it turns out he was spending a lot of money without telling me where it was going -- even though I was paying for everything. I ended the engagement and kicked him out Sept. 1.

So now not only do I now have more money because I'm not paying for two people, but I also have freedom to do things he wouldn't want me to do, like exercise with a personal trainer.

In hindsight I was really stupid, but he was very convincing about wanting to get a better job. It still hurts me that he wouldn't get it together. And it is scary to be alone again. But I'm so much happier.