I’m 29 and my now ex boyfriend, Justin is 20. We had been dating for a little over a year. I’m to lack of a better word piss poor and to make a living I had been taking odd jobs here and there. One of those jobs was cleaning apartments. The area I live in is becoming gentrified so you have low income apartment dwellers like me next to to upper class people like Justin living in luxury condos just couple miles away. 

I met Justin as I got hired to clean his apartment. Justin has Aspergers and was a awkward at first, but he’s a sweetheart you know. We got to know each other pretty well, he was funny and attractive and before you know it I took his virginity and we started having sex. I was going to tell him its strictly casual, but he started to like me a lot and he would buy me groceries, new clothes like a really nice winter coat, and I had even moved in with him out of my crumbling apartment building. I had lost my job with the apartment cleaning company as well and had to get a lower paying one so Justin was kind of my meal ticket.

Don’t get me wrong Justin’s nice, he’s attractive, and he’s good in bed, but I just don’t love him like he does. Recently though I got offered and took a really good job at another cleaning company that paid really well. I’ve built up a hefty amount savings because I didn’t have many expenses with Justin. I broke up with him a week ago and he’s devastated, I tried to console him and tell him he’d find another girl, but he wouldn’t hear it. I told him we could still be like friends with benefits, but that just made him angry. I moved out and into a new apartment, but I still kind of feel bad about Justin. 

Am I the asshole? 