Have you ever lied about your salary? Because friends were making more or less? I told my partner I made a certain amount when we were just friends but now we're seriously dating and I can't keep up with pretending I'm making 270k. I'm barely netting 80k. Should I come clean? Or try and find a job that would give me more?

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Fake it till you make it 😂

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Lol I cant! We're talking about moving in together

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Come clean. If you continue to lie, it will just snowball and get worse. Before I moved in with my partner, we talked about all our finances. Every couple may approach finances differently, but budgeting for a life together is pretty important..

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If I’ve learned anything from Hallmark movies it’s to come clean. And tell them sooner than later. If you wait, they’ll find out in some terrible way and it will be a lot harder to explain and apologize. Skip all the drama and tell the truth, you got this!

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Time to come clean bro. Hopefully your relationship is strong enough that it can handle the breech of trust. But if marriage is truly the goal, she deserves to know what your bringing to the table from a financial perspective, as well as understanding the debt you’ve incurred to keep the the façade.

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I would say that going from $80k to $270k in one swoop is not a realistic goal. It takes time to triple your income. So unless you’re willing to continue to mislead them for the next 5-10 years you should probably tell them. It’s not going to be easy, especially if your presumed success is what attracted them to you in the first place. Good luck.

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The most important question is… why did you lie about how much you make?

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Just tell her you donate $200k/year to charity. She will love you more for your generosity and will probably start chipping in more.

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When I was with my previous partner I did tell her my salary. Bearing in mind it was not a great salary she still seemed to think that I could afford foreign holidays or expensive nights out when I was struggling to put food on the table and a roof over our heads.
Every time the subject of money came up and the chance of her helping out a bit she went strangely silent and found some excuse to leave the room.

With my current partner it is a completely different kettle of fish. Before we bought our house we sat down and worked out all our finances together. Every month she has her eye on what is going in and out of the household and joint accounts. And before any significant purchase we sit and go through it all again.

If you have a partner you can trust implicitly like that there is no reason not to be open with each other about your money. If you have a partner like my previous one. You are one hiding to nothing. It doesn't matter whether you tell her or not it will still be what is mine is hers and what is hers is hers

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come clean

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Absolutely come clean!

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The answer yes

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My partner and I are 100% transparent with finances, but none of my friends know what I make. People get weird about money.

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Come clean

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😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

I guess you'll have to determine whether they dislike liars or were after a high roller.

As a woman I can tell you that if she's bringing this up then chances are she already knows that something is up (if not this specifically) and is giving you the chance to come clean on your own. As someone mentioned already, let her know this was about your insecurities and not a reflection of what you think/feel about her.

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not sure if this is a troll post

Lol wow the shade

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For purposes of getting a higher salary at my next job, yes.

Come clean and hope she sticks around- if she doesn't, you just saved your self a whole bunch of hurt and you should listen to Late Registration on repeat :)

Why would you talk about your salary? That's asking for trouble. I would come clean but just tell her you make good money but not nearly as much as you told her in past. High 5 figures is all.

Also based on the context provided in the comments.

Tell her you you're torn apart because you love her more anything, but you feel the weight of the guilt for lying her all along and the fear that she'll hate you forever if you tell her the truth.

If she loves you, she'll be so concerned about you that she will minimise - even to herself - the importance of you lying about your salary.

Any update, OP?

😂 No time he is working 24/7

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Do both lol

Both?

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