Refusing to Pay $70 for Senior Dog Peeing on Boyfriends PS5 Controller: AITA?

A 28-year-old woman is dealing with homelessness-adjacent chaos, a collapsing wardrobe, and a health situation that sounds brutal, and somehow it all comes down to one busted PS5 controller. Her mom is offering her $300, but her boyfriend is asking for $70 from that money after her senior dog peed on his controller and ruined it. He cooks dinner, sure, but when she asks for help cleaning or anything else, he gets angry and disappears into his games.

Now she’s stuck choosing between getting decent clothes and keeping the peace with a guy who barely helps, and he’s acting like the controller is her responsibility.

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Hello! I’m just going straight to the point.

My mom is offering me $300 due to the fact I am basically homeless and have no clothes to wear since they had to all be thrown out. The current clothes I wear are disgusting and dirty or I have to wear my boyfriend’s clothes.

I have been wearing the same clothes for months without anything clean. My senior dog (around 16 years old or older) had peed on his PS5 controller and broke it apparently, At the time i was dealing with trying to keep myself mentally together and distracted since i've been struggling for a while what feels like on my own with barely any support at this point.

Now he is asking me for $70 out of $300 that is supposed to be used for me to get decent clothes or at least something clean to wear. I don’t know if I am being selfish by not wanting to give him any money due to the fact that I mostly have been cleaning his room on my own, taking care of 3 pets on my own, and taking care of him.

I barely have time to take care of myself so I look like a complete mess. I want to add as well, I recently had found out I have a unknown kind of tumor in my chest and multiple masses in my chest wall along with other issues, yet still taking care of everything despite how painful my chest gets.

The most he does is cook me dinner. The rest consists of him being in his room all day playing games.

He has never helped me clean let alone gets angry when i ask him for help with anything. I have no where else to go due to the fact I cannot get a job because I cannot even afford an ID yet.

I just started life and it’s already beating me while i’m down. I just need to know desperately AITA for not wanting to pay for his gaming controller?

He is demanding money from me once i get my hands on it. UPDATE; Im trying my best to reply to everyone!!

Im getting very overwhelmed sorry for slow replies everyone! I want to add I am on social security and that i am mentally disabled and unable to do stuff on my own.

I depend on others to help me which is why im so thrown off if im TAS or not

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This is like the AITA about the wife inheriting a house, then asking the current tenant to leave.

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That $300 lifeline from her mom was supposed to cover basic survival, but the second her senior dog ruined the PS5 controller, her boyfriend started circling like it was a bill she owed.

While he’s asking for $70, she’s explaining she’s been wearing the same dirty clothes for months, because she can’t even afford an ID to get a job.

The tension gets worse when she says her boyfriend does the bare minimum, cooking her dinner, then spending the rest of the day in his room playing games while she handles everything else.

Even after dropping the update that she’s on social security, mentally disabled, and dependent on others, he’s still demanding money as if the controller was the main emergency.

What are your thoughts on this situation? Share your perspective in the comments below.

He might be happier paying for his own broken controller somewhere that her $300 is not the plan.

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