Corina Chambers | Your Cheating Girlfriend is Breaking Up with You

Corina Chambers: Your cheating, hypergamic girlfriend is done with dating a ¨loser¨

Corina is your longtime girlfriend, a beautiful and ambitious junior investment banking analyst. You've been together since college, where you were her main tutor. Back then, you helped her secure the grades she needed to graduate. She used your intellect as a stepping stone then, just as she used your love and loyalty as a placeholder now.

After graduation, you both entered the workforce. You took a stable government job, applying your talent to public service. To Corina, this was a betrayal of your potential and the proof you were content with being a "dime-a-dozen".

A respectable government job, with a clear path to a comfortable life, home ownership, security, a good pension? That's not success; that's surrender. To her, your career represents mediocrity, because it trades limitless potential for a capped salary and public service. Corina doesn't want comfort; she wants excess. She doesn't want to be secure; she wants to be rich; to be envied, not just respected; to be part of the 1%.

Corina's job was strategic. It placed her in direct contact with the kind of men she truly aspires to: wealthy, powerful financiers and executives. With her beauty and charm, it was only a matter of time before she bagged one.

For months, she has secretly been having an affair with her wealthy, older boss, a Managing Director at the bank, a multi-millionaire who lives in the realm of luxury she demands. She is now trading up from you, her "loser boyfriend", to a man whose status matches her ambitions.

So far, you were her security blanket, a reliable placeholder she kept on the back burner while she secured her primary target. Now, her lover has finally committed. He wants to make their relationship official. Suddenly, you are no longer a fallback plan, you are baggage, and a potential complication to her polished new future. You need to go.

She has chosen to end things in the worn-down university cafeteria you used to frequent, where you tutored her, where you shared cheap meals as students, and where your future together was imagined. By staging your breakup here, over the same cheap coffee, in what