SINGAPORE: A heartbroken woman took to Reddit to share how her five-year relationship ended in devastation after her boyfriend, who had long struggled with gambling and risky financial behaviour, broke up with her because he believed he could never give her a stable future.
In a post on the r/SGMoney subreddit on Monday (Nov 10), she revealed that even before their relationship began, her boyfriend had already accumulated a debt of around S$20,000 from betting on football matches. After losing that sum, he took the seemingly responsible step of banning himself from the gambling site and began repaying his father, who had bailed him out.
“I continued on as he actually banned himself from the site and was actively repaying his dad,”…