Man Buys Home with ‘Life-Changing’ Inheritance, but Girlfriend Thinks It’s ‘Unfair’ When He Asks to Split Expenses

A man turns to the Reddit community for support following a difficult conversation with his longtime girlfriend. He wonders if he is wrong for asking her to split their household costs despite his recent inheritance.

The 34-year-old explains that he was “fortunate to inherit some money from my grandfather,” who wanted him to use the funds “to buy a house.”

The poster notes that he is very “grateful” to have been given the “life-changing amount of money,” about £450,000 (or $600,000).

He and his 29-year-old girlfriend found a rural cottage with a “half-converted” stone barn, and have been dreaming about building their future there.

The home requires some work to make the annex livable, but he sees real opportunity in it. “It just needs a small kitchen and bathroom put in before it would be ready to rent,” he says, sharing that the plan is to generate income from the space.

He carefully ran the numbers for their new life together and, according to his calculations, “bills, council tax, insurance, utilities, heating, food pets come to about 1200 gbp a month” — or around $1,600.

The man admits that his expectation is for both of them to contribute equally once they are settled. “I would want my gf to contribute half towards that when we are settled say within 2 or 3 years time,” he explains.

At the same time, he makes clear that any rental income would help reduce her financial burden. “If we made 600 in a month, she would pay 0 for her side,” he writes, noting that if the income covered everything, “we’d both pay 0 and anything extra split equally or decide what to do with it.” visit PEOPLE