Jenny is embarrassed to admit that she used to clean her ex-boyfriend’s bedroom for him. She would fold his clothes, book his doctor’s appointments and write his job applications. He was aimless, she says. When they went out drinking with friends, she would pray that he wouldn’t reupholster the seats of the Uber with his own vomit on their way home. Now, more than three years after their breakup, she remembers him as “a manchild”.
“He wouldn’t communicate with me properly,” she explains. “He’d end up just storming off if we argued and not talk to me, or he’d make fun of me for crying.” It’s made Jenny reassess the type of person she’ll date in the future. “It’s definitely made me think I need to be on an equal emotional maturity level with the partner that I choose next. It put a lot of strain on our relationship because I ended up feeling like I was doing everything for him.”
