I’m a corporate lady, and from time to time I need ETR receipts for reconciliation. These are electronic tax receipts used to match expenses and keep financial records clean, especially when reporting or balancing accounts at work.
I asked my boyfriend for help with this, and he quickly referred me to a plug. Honestly, the work is done perfectly and very fast, so I have no complaints there.
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But I’ve been asking him to connect me directly to the guy so I can handle my assignments without involving him every time. He insists I should just give him the instructions, and he’ll pass them on. Even payments. I send them to my boyfriend, not the guy.
I’ve asked several times why I can’t deal with the person directly, and he says the guy prefers to stay anonymous because the kind of work he does for me is risky. He doesn’t want to be exposed or set up. That explanation doesn’t sit well with me.
Yesterday, we had a small clash over this. I felt I was overcharged, and when I asked to speak to the guy so I could bargain, my boyfriend did it himself and got me a discount. I intentionally didn’t send the full agreed amount. I held back a small portion just to test my boyfriend.
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He later texted me saying I was causing issues with the guy and that I should settle the full amount. It’s not that I don’t have the money. I just haven’t sent it yet. When I brought it up today and told him I felt he overreacted, he said it wasn’t about him, it was about the guy doing the job. He even claimed he had to pay the remaining balance himself. Then he added that if I’m not okay with this guy, he’ll find someone else to help me.
Now I owe my boyfriend, but I’m feeling like I shouldn’t pay him back. I have this strong feeling that he’s the one doing the work and hiding behind his “friend.” Am I overthinking this? Or is it just jealousy. Maybe he doesn’t want me talking to another man?
Should I send him the amount he claims he paid on my behalf?
—Yaa
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Have a seat down talk with your boyfriend. Let him understand how outsourcing the work is having a heavy toll on your finance fir which reason you would want to learn to do it all by yourself.
Ask him to arrange for you and him to meet his friend, and his friend should give you the tutorials right in this presence. If you have to take you a number of meetings to learn the whole lessons, let your boyfriend be present at all the meetings.
Then once you know how to do it, you pay his friend off for the lessons and you begin to do it all by yourself.
This should represent a win win situation for all oc you: you get the know-how and your boyfriend is satisfied you’re not seeing his friend behind his back
He’s taking advantage of you.
Look for another source without telling him and you’d be good.
Don’t trust too much