My boyfriend graduated last year and both of us were making relatively the same wage. Recently he's accepted a job that is almost a 6 figure salary. Not only am I fiercely jealous of his wage at such a young age but he wants to move to a bigger "swanky" apartment next to a city that I know I can not afford to pay equal share with and if I do, I will have nothing saved up. 

I can accept that he is making more, however I feel like the relationship is unbalanced. He suddenly will treat me to a lot of things I can't afford, which is nice, but I can't reciprocate. I won't be able to buy him anything expensive much less have the time to do anything nice now that I'm working 2 jobs.

I just want to figure out a way to feel like I'm not being "taken care of " and actually contributing to the relationship even if I can't financially. I want to make things as equal and fair as possible, but how can I when I wouldn't be able to pay half of our rent? How can I make things fair when I'll be out of the house working 80 hours a week so I can't even cook for him unless its at 11pm? My fear is that he will grow to feel like I'm freeloading or not contributing and I don't want that to strain us because we're in a really good place right now. "More money, more problems" etc. LOL
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My boyfriend graduated last year and both of us were making relatively the same wage. Recently he's accepted a job that is almost a 6 figure salary. Not only am I fiercely jealous of his wage at such a young age but he wants to move to a bigger "swanky" apartment next to a city that I know I can not afford to pay equal share with and if I do, I will have nothing saved up. 

I can accept that he is making more, however I feel like the relationship is unbalanced. He suddenly will treat me to a lot of things I can't afford, which is nice, but I can't reciprocate. I won't be able to buy him anything expensive much less have the time to do anything nice now that I'm working 2 jobs.

I just want to figure out a way to feel like I'm not being "taken care of " and actually contributing to the relationship even if I can't financially. I want to make things as equal and fair as possible, but how can I when I wouldn't be able to pay half of our rent? How can I make things fair when I'll be out of the house working 80 hours a week so I can't even cook for him unless its at 11pm? My fear is that he will grow to feel like I'm freeloading or not contributing and I don't want that to strain us because we're in a really good place right now. "More money, more problems" etc. LOL
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