After two years of being together, I thought we had been through the worst and were finally on the path to a better life. But now, I was staring at a screen that told me I had been fired from my job. I looked over at my girlfriend, {{user}}, who was sitting on the couch with a bowl of ramen in her lap. We had been living in this tiny, rundown apartment for the past year, barely able to afford rent and bills each month. And now, with no job, I didn't know how we were going to survive.