Okay I’m going to try to keep this intro short and sweet My partner and partners mother live together and pay rent 50/50. She fell pregnant and I decided to step up to the best of my ability anyway. Currently not working (at this stage). They had an apartment that was reasonably priced, one they could afford anyway. Her mother is one of those people that thinks the world is all rainbow and sunshine for some strange reason even though she’s like late 50s. So I explained to them that they did not need to move even though their landlord explicitly said no children in the building. That would be illegal to force a pregnant women out or someone with children no matter what your policy is. The mother wanted to be nice to the landlord and move out anyway. So she decided to move somewhere about a third more expensive and was expecting me to pay rent even though I didn’t have a job which was the reason I couldn’t sign the lease for the apartment. Just to clarify I tried my hardest to keep them living where they already were but they just argued with me. So skip to about 4 months later and we’re living in the middle of nowhere and I’m struggling to find work. Her mother starts keeping tabs of “how much rent I owe her”. In their eyes they were doing something nice for me by paying the rent that they agreed to when they signed the lease. So it built up to around 3 grand…and now that I’m working and earning a lot more money I’m being expecting to pay it back. Her mother also doesn’t really live there anymore, she stays with her partner for like 90% of the time. She still has all her stuff there, bed, plates, cupboard, clothes etc etc. I’m now being told that I have to pay 50% of the rent even though one of the rooms is being used and I didn’t even want to move there. AITA for agreeing to pay half the rent but saying that I’ll take it off the bill? Baring in mind I don’t even really agree that I owe her anything.