Her Husband Paid For Him And His Friends To Go Away For Weeks For The World Cup But Left Her With Only One Hundred Dollars To Celebrate Christmas With Their Three Kids, So She Said They Would Not Be Celebrating This Year, And Now Her Husband Is Furious
This woman is currently a stay-at-home mom who raises her three children full-time. Her husband, on the other hand, works a full-time job and makes an “okay salary,” according to her.
Over the past four months, though, her husband has been very frugal with their spending because he was saving up for a large goal.
He wanted to travel overseas to watch the World Cup in Qatar since he is a diehard fan obsessed with anything soccer related.
And honestly, she was okay with her husband splurging on himself for the occasion.
“He said he rarely ever gets to do what he wants, and so I didn’t want to judge him since it is his money eventually,” she recalled.
Her husband was obviously going to be gone for a good amount of time, though– until December 20, to be exact. So, before he left, they had a discussion about Christmas plans.
And during their talk, her husband told her she had to handle everything holiday-related and claimed he put aside enough money to cover their Christmas decorations, food, gifts, kids’ necessities, and more. Once her husband actually handed over the cash, though, she could not believe her eyes.
“The money in total was one hundred dollars. I was completely shocked,” she said.
She then proceeded to tell her husband that one hundred dollars were nowhere near enough to cover an entire family’s Christmas celebration. In fact, she called the amount of money he left ridiculous.
JenkoAtaman – stock.adobe.com – illustrative purposes only, not the actual person
Her husband apparently did not understand or care, though, because he just shrugged her off and claimed that was all the money he had.
But quite frankly, she saw through her husband’s charade and pointed out how he was paying for his friends’ and their girlfriends’ travel expenses to Qatar.
Nonetheless, he told her to “just take the money” anyway, and she actually refused.
She ended up telling her husband that if he seriously left their family with only one hundred dollars for everything, then she would not be doing anything for Christmas in their home.
Well, her refusal prompted various arguments that never ended up getting resolved. Her husband has since left for Qatar days ago, and just yesterday, while she was cleaning up, she stumbled upon an envelope.
The envelope contained the same one hundred dollars with a note from her husband to “make it work.”
And after finding that, she was furious and decided to send her husband a message underscoring how she would not be doing anything for the holiday with such little money.
“He was livid,” she explained, “He just kept sending an angry message after another angry message.”
Apparently, her husband blew up her phone and accused her of being “spoiled” and said that she needed to stop expecting to live as if she was still living at her parents’ house.
Finally, he even claimed she was trying to “rob” their children of enjoying the holidays as other kids do.
Ever since receiving those texts, though, she has not responded. So, her husband has continued saying that she is trying to punish him for going to the World Cup and guilt trip him for using his own money by taking away Christmas.
And now, she has been left wondering if choosing not to do anything for Christmas this year is justified or if the decision makes her a total jerk.
Is one hundred dollars enough for a family with three children to celebrate Christmas? Why do you think her husband was willing to foot the bill for his friends’ travel expenses but not his own family’s holiday needs? If you were in her shoes, how would you feel in this relationship? Would you have made the same decision to basically “cancel Christmas,” too?
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