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AITA for telling my husband his family is draining us?
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The image does not depict the actual subjects of the story. Subjects are models.
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This is something that one woman found herself struggling to communicate to her husband after she felt the amount of money that he was sending to his family was getting out of hand. The oldest of twelve children, he had built a design consulting business with her. Since it had reached some degree of success, he had been sending significant amounts of money to his parents to help them with various expenses and debts.
Once the woman's mother-in-law began asking her for money and the family began planning to build a large house they were unlikely to afford alone, she felt the need to rein in the spending. However, her husband wasn't pleased with this proposal, and she wanted to know if she was being unreasonable.
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Commenters tried to advise her as best they could.
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Wife protests when mother-in-law starts asking her for money while husband uses joint business to send $1200 a month to family : 'So far he's bought them a car, paid off their debts, funded his parents' wedding'
When you agree to commit to another person by marrying them, there are certain topics that you have to be crystal clear about. One of these is how you are going to manage your finances as a couple. If you have any kind of joint income, this conversation is particularly essential. The last thing you want is somebody spending your money in a way that you don't condone.
For many reasons, money is something that many spouses fail to adequately discuss, and this almost always leads to problems further down the line. If you are anything like most people, you have a limited amount of those precious dollars, and the majority of partners are going to expect that your priority should be using them to make your life better as a couple. While it is understandable to want to help out your family when you are stable and they aren't, there can be limits to this.
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