Same as people stay in unfulfilling, shitty jobs that pay less, just so they don’t risk losing health insurance or other “benefits.”

So many decisions get made because you gotta make sure you secure a bag of some kind.

There’s a damn good reason why we in the working class are gaslit and prodded into converting our romantic relationships into glorified labour arrangements (ie, marriage) as soon as possible - intimacy requires time and energy… time and energy that, under a capitalist system, must be spent labouring for the parasite class and nothing else.

It’s also the reason why any children that results from such intimate relationships must be mass-corraled into glorified creches (ie, our so-called “education system”) at the first opportune moment - we can’t have the working class spend any undue amount of time actually doing any parenting, now can we?

this is why more dv shelters/womens shelters need to offer vocational assistance