Stay-at-home mom spends money she earned cleaning to buy stuffed animals, only for husband to demand she only use it for bills: ‘You don't contribute anything’

Being a stay-at-home parent is as much a job as anything else, even if there's no paycheck at the end of each month.

If a mom saves the household thousands of dollars by not putting the kids in childcare, her work at home becomes a lot more important than any actual job she might have had. But for some reason, their working partners often tend to forget that. They think that staying at home with the kids is basically a vacation. And even worse than that, they act as if they are the only ones entitled to decide what happens to the household money, just because they are technically the only ones making it.

That is exactly the problem of the husband below. He thinks that since he is working and his wife is a stay-at-home mom, he gets the final say about where the money goes each month. He doesn't think his wife is entitled to a drop of it and refuses to even let her be involved in any of the financial decisions. Not only that, but even after she started earning some of her own money by cleaning other people's houses, he still insists that she is not supposed to spend that money on herself. Every dollar she brings in should go to paying the bills, since she is "not contributing" to anything else.

We would like to see him switch roles with her for one week, and then see what tune he's singing after that. Not only does his wife have a full-time job that he could never do, but she also works for some money on the side, and he thinks he has the right to tell her what to do with it?

If she wants to spend that money on stuffed animals, she should spend that money on stuffed animals. She deserves to treat herself like any other person would, job or no job, and the fact that her own husband fails to understand that is making us want to shake him until he does.