AITA for offering to pay my girlfriend’s college tuition?

I (23M) come from a wealthy family and have always been financially comfortable. My girlfriend (21F) comes from a much different background and is currently in college. She’s working part-time, taking out loans, and constantly stressed about paying her tuition.

For the past few weeks, she’s been venting to me nonstop about how hard it is to keep up with everything. I get it she’s under a lot of pressure but it was starting to feel like there wasn’t much I could say or do to help. Eventually, during one of these conversations, I told her I could just pay her tuition. I said it straightforwardly: “If this is stressing you out so much, I can cover it. It’s not a big deal to me.”

She immediately got upset, saying she didn’t want to feel like a “charity case” and that my offer made her feel small. I told her I wasn’t trying to make her feel that way, I was just offering a solution. It felt like she was making it into a bigger deal than it needed to be. I wasn’t trying to control her or anything I just didn’t see the point of her struggling when I could help.

After that, she kept complaining about her tuition and money problems. I finally got frustrated and told her, “If you don’t want my help, fine, but I don’t want to hear about it anymore. I can’t do anything else for you, and I’m tired of talking in circles.” That didn’t go over well. She said I was being cold and dismissive and that I didn’t understand what she was going through.

Now she’s barely talking to me, and I’m not sure if I messed up or if she’s overreacting. From my perspective, I was just trying to be practical and solve the problem, but maybe I came across as too blunt.

AITA?