I’ve been seeing a woman for a year now, meeting once a week and giving her about ¥400,000 a month in allowance. We exchange a few LINE messages every day, and we both know each other’s personal information and addresses.

At first, we were both seeing multiple people, but I feel that we’ve gradually narrowed things down to a more exclusive arrangement. I have a general idea of how she lives, and her lifestyle is quite sloppy. She loses things easily, is often late, frequently bad-mouths other people, and forgets what she herself has said. Lately, more and more things have started to bother me. She has a strong sense of pride and says she believes in not chasing after anyone who leaves. Whenever I point out something she’s doing wrong, she somehow turns me into the bad guy, and it ends in an argument. Given that, I don’t think it would be easy to have a discussion about ending things. I assume she has other supporters as well, so I’m thinking it might be best to gradually fade out of the relationship. What do you think?