Married couple wins the lottery and wife assumes she'll be able to quit her job, husband threatens her with divorce after she refuses to split winnings equally: ‘[She] started accusing me of being a gold digger’

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Lana DeGaetano • "Show me to me please."
Apr 7, 2025 3:00 PM EDT

Winning the lottery is, well, like winning the lottery! See what I did there?

One lucky scratch-off or choice of numbers can be your ticket to financial success. If you came into a large sum of money, what do you think you'd do with it? Would you tell anyone or keep it all to yourself? If you shared the ticket with a friend or partner, would you split it equally? My answer to all of these questions is, "It depends." One would hope that their partner would split the winnings with them, especially if they're married. A legal document doesn't mean a lot to a lot of people, it seems. Sure, forever is nice, but have you ever seen $500k in your bank account? Man…

In this next story, a man threatens his wife with divorce after she insists upon quitting her job and living off of their lottery winnings. The poster doesn't share the exact amount but suggests it is a life-enhancing amount rather than a life-changing amount. His wife then goes on many tirades, leading the poster to threaten her with divorce. Scroll to read.

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  • Picture this: You just paid off your sizable mortgage with your lottery winnings. You think it might be a good idea to invest in some stock and live off of dividends so you can lead a comfortable life while still maintaining the life you already have. No more working overtime, baby! Then, your partner thinks they'll never work again while you bring home all the chicken. Absolutely not.

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  • "AITAH for telling my wife we either share our lotto winnings or we separate and I get half anyway?"

    My wife and I are extremely fortunate to have won a decent amount of money from Lotto recently. It wasn't the top prize but it was enough to pay off our (sizeable) mortgage and still have
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  • some left over for vacations. The mortgage was by far our biggest weekly cost and with that gone we could both comfortably cut our hours back at work to only
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  • school hours and spend some more time with our kids, this was always a daydream we spoke about when we bought lotto tickets, I assumed this is what we would both do.
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  • When we got the money and paid off hour house everything almost immediately turned bad. My wife started talking about how amazing it's going to be finally not having to work anymore, |
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  • was blindsided by this. Even with the mortgage gone we would still have to work at least school hours to keep our current standard of living, and on my salary alone things would be
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  • tight. I asked if she was serious and she said of course, it was her ticket and she gets to decide. This is BS because we both
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  • bought lotto tickets before and when we moved in together we only bought one because two seemed like a waste of money.
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  • I tried to reason with her, say she could use some of the extra to take some unpaid leave here and there but she needs to keep her job, when I said "if I'm only working school hours" she
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  • absolutely flipped and started accusing me of being a gold. digger and ruining this for her, how she deserved it after working so much of her life etc I asked her for a pause because I was honestly afraid, she's never been like this before.
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  • The next few days we tried to have this conversation again but she didn't budge an inch, and when she said "well it doesn't matter now because I'm putting in my notice at work" I lost it and
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  • told her I'm not going through with this, if she's not going to share the winnings which is under both of our names I'll divorce her and get half through the house and therefore half the winnings anway, this started another screaming match where she continued to call my a gold digger.
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  • I'm absolutely exhausted and lost, I feel like my wife has been replaced by an imposter. I would've preferred not winning if I knew this was going to happen.
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  • Jolly_Engineer_6688 The good news is that you can afford the divorce. The bad news is that the attorneys will be going on your vacation
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  • toejampeanutbutter6 Ditch her and get half. Sounds like she is a self centered person that only cares about herself. Look back at some events in your relationship and you will see a trend. You are not the a hole She is
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  • wlfwrtr NTA You have to file for divorce immediately. If you can show that she quit her job after you saw an attorney you are less likely to pay alimony. Start marriage counseling. Sounds like friends or family may be putting thoughts into her head. She needs someone unbiased to talk to.
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  • Scarletwreen This is wild. Honestly, I'd be feelin' totally betrayed too. Like, yall had a plan, and she just flipped out? That aint right. And calling u a gold digger? That's just plain mean. I'd document everything, every convo, every text. Get a lawyer, like, yesterday. This aint about the money anymore, its about respect and her showing her true colors. I'd be questioning everything rn, ngl.
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  • SixDuckies I don't understand how all that makes you the 'gold digger'? What she actually wants you to be is the only bread winner...she wants to live a life of luxury and not work, and that would make her the gold digger!
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  • stiletto929 Most people who win the lottery end up right back where they started pretty quickly. You should go together to a financial advisor before making any more changes.
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  • 000ps-Crow_No Sounds like yall won a 'life enhancing' amount, not a 'life changing' amount and she doesn't know the difference. Please seek counseling.
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  • InternallySad19 NTA - my wife and I ALWAYS talk about what we would do if we won the lottery. Pay off our debts - Pay off our families debt and invest the rest to live off of dividends.
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  • And this is buying the ticket with our joint account and even then we talked about our plan if we bought it with our own separate money (through our own financial institutions) which is surprisingly enough still the same plan. The fact that your SO was just like f you this is mine.. bro leave and get the half.
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