AITA for getting mad at my anxious partner over not getting a job

NAH

For background info, this is about me and my long distance girlfriend. We started dating when we were in school, but our families live in different continents and now we’re going to uni in different places too. We can’t see each other as much, but it’s especially hard during the summer. Flights between her and my place are very expensive. Over the summer, I would come to her place (which would be more expensive than seeing each other during uni time). Throughout the semester, our parents would pay the flights respectively.

Recently, her parents have been saying she should get a job over the summer. We had been planning to see each other for over six months, but her parents aren’t agreeing to pay both flights anymore, so she can only see me if she gets a job to pay for one of them. My girlfriend is struggling with OCD and depression, which makes this process very hard for her. She has a hard time getting up the energy to do things, and things like interviews stress her out immensely.

So to help, I filled out around 50 job applications and emailed 10 people for her. She barely heard back from anyone, since she doesn’t have experience. The very few interviews she got she couldn’t do because it made her anxious. Since she didn’t really hear back, I suggested she should go to places and ask in person; she’s very friendly and would be more likely to get a job that way. So we compiled a list of places she can go to, both places she applied to online and didn’t apply to. A few days later I asked when she would like to go and do it, and offered to stay on the phone with her the entire time (6h time difference). She suddenly said she won’t do it because she doesn’t wanna do anything, and because that’s too stressful.

My parents have offered to pay one flight and I have offered to pay a part of the flight she has to pay but she isn’t agreeing to that. However, that means she can’t come see me.
Normally, I would just come to see her and that would be an issue. But I have come to see her the last two summers, and we’ve been talking about this for over half a year, because there’s things I wanna show her, since she’s only been over during winter time. Additionally, I’m moving countries about four days after we see each other, which is why it would be tough to do a cross continent flight with jet lag so shortly before.
More importantly though (and this is the main point of this post) I want her to meet a family member of mine. I used to spend so much time with her as a kid, she is really important to me, and getting older. She was supposed to meet her the first time we were there, but we ended up cancelling because she had a panic attack. Then we were gonna meet her the second time, but she had a deadline she hadn’t done any work for (because she’d been too anxious and low energy) and then was too stressed to see my family member after, who was in the hospital at the time.

I was understanding both times, since it was obvious she was struggling. But when she said she’s not gonna get a job because she doesn’t want to, I got angry at her. I try not to be cause I know she’s struggling, but I got frustrated. I have done so much and offered to do anything to help her with this but some things I just can’t help her with. But that means she won’t be able to come over, even though she knows how much this means to me. I understand she’s having a really hard time, but I am so frustrated, I’ve been wanting her to meet that relative of mine for so long. I know flights are expensive and it’s not a given to just do something like this just like that, but I have done everything I could to help and she is just rejecting every offer, so now I am frustrated and I don’t know what to do. Please be honest, AITA here?

Posted Jul 9, 2026, 7:58 PM UTC

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