Every crafter knows their supplies are sacred — especially the ones that cost a small fortune.

So when her partner treated her high-end fabric like spare cloth and demanded she make him something for free, she realized the real issue wasn’t money, it was respect.

Keep reading for the full story.

AITA for not using an expensive clothing fabric to make my bf a curtain??

I have an Etsy shop where I sell various items.

Running this business is far from free.

I have a specific fabric (cotton spandex with serial killers on it) that I use for underwear. This fabric cost me $52.90 with shipping to purchase.

Now, I don’t do a ton of sales, and I’m okay with that as it’s mostly a hobby and occasionally extra income. So, I’ve had this fabric for a year or two and made a handful of items out of it.

So when her boyfriend felt entitled to her most expensive piece of fabric, it gave her pause.

He went into my craft room, searched through my fabric, and grabbed that one. Then he asked me to make a curtain out of it for his office window.

I explained to him that fabric is really expensive and if he wanted me to make a curtain out of it, he had to pay me for the fabric.

He didn’t seem to understand where she was coming from at all.

He got really offended. It threw me that he thought I should just sacrifice this expensive fabric that I make money from to make him a curtain.

AITA for telling him no if he doesn’t pay me for it?

This doesn’t sound like a boyfriend who values her time or her craft.

What did Reddit think?

Clearly her boyfriend doesn’t know much about fabrics.

This user concurs that her boyfriend’s request is completely unreasonable.

If her boyfriend really respected her small business, then he wouldn’t behave this way.

Why not make a compromise?

If her boyfriend thought she’d cave over a piece of fabric, he clearly underestimated how much value she puts on her craft.

Some people seem to think love means free labor.

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