Don't Make My Mistake

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What people learned about relationships

Observations aggregated from 1 mistakes submitted to this archive. Not research — just what people told us it cost them.

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What keeps repeating

relationships1moving-in1money1

The most expensive of them

The lessons

  1. Never let a financial shortcut make a relationship decision for you. Rent is cheaper than an unwinding.

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The mistakes behind them

I moved in with a partner mainly to save on rent

🇧🇪 Belgium · ❤️ Relationships · 20-29

What happened

We were not ready but the maths looked good. Living together accelerated everything wrong with the relationship and then we could not afford to separate for another eight months.

Time lost14 monthsEmotional costDraining

What I learned

Never let a financial shortcut make a relationship decision for you. Rent is cheaper than an unwinding.

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