A woman supported her boyfriend’s podcast from day one, quietly doing most of the behind-the-scenes work—editing, branding, research—on top of her full-time job. When the podcast landed a paid sponsorship, he dismissed her request for fair compensation, saying she was his girlfriend, not an employee, and that she should help “out of love.”
So she stopped. Without her unpaid labor, the podcast quickly fell apart, revealing how much he had taken her for granted. In the end, she walked away from both the project and the relationship, learning that love is not an excuse for exploitation—and that knowing your worth sometimes means letting someone fail without you.
