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Does your unemployed spouse have to ask you for money?
It got out today that I set my husband a limit for how much he can spend. And then I got verbally attacked by some family saying that is wrong of me and that just because I am the only one working that I should not be giving him an “allowance” as they called it. But the truth of the matter is. He has a spending problem. In the past he would by every “as seen on tv” product that caught his attention. Or he would buy unnecessary things and was convinced that we needed them. When I would question him about it he would become offensive. That is how I knew he had an addiction. So since then I have only set so much that he could spend out of our account every month. How is that a bad thing? I guess it depends on the situation.
I think it is quite sensible that if one person has a spending problem, their spending should be restricted. Personally, I wouldn’t mind if my husband set a limit on how much I could spend, as i am fairly extravagent, but he has no inclination to do this.
But I think it would probably have been better if the two of you had kept this private between you. Your husband’s relatives may resent you doing this, and perhaps see this as you trying to belittle him or something.
It might also have been better to emphasise that you are restricting your own spending as well. I mean, I presume that you would not set him a spending limit without setting yourself one as well, as that would be rather unfair.
I think what is really important is, how does your husband feel about this? Does he resent it? Is it worth it if it is going to cause friction between you? If he doesn’t resent it however, then I should just tell his relatives that it’s none of their business.
If he does resent it however then you may have a problem. But it is something that the two of you need to work out without involving his relatives.
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