‘I paid once, I warned him, and I’m done being his permanent bailout’: Wife refuses to buy her chronically late husband another international ticket after he shows up 16 minutes before a nonrefundable flight, misses it, and demands a bailout

• AITA for refusing to rescue my 38yo husband after he showed up 16 minutes before his international flight home and missed it?

  
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• Meanwhile, the boring math is real. Four kids, two houses, one fixer-upper eating every spare dollar. Money’s tight, and the first ticket was already paid. He had a place to stay, he wasn’t stranded on a bench. Missing the flight isn’t an emergency, it’s a bill for ignoring the clock. Boundaries here aren’t cold, they’re adult. 

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• Calling it tuition fits. When warnings don’t land, consequences do. No second swipe. He can hang at mom’s, regroup, and maybe set an alarm that starts with a five instead of a six. If reliability is part of the deal, then catching flights is part of the job. The fix is brutally simple and not exciting: leave earlier, respect the fare rules, stop outsourcing panic to the person who already booked, checked in, and said don’t cut it close. Until that shows up, the answer stays no, and the couch stays warm.

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