He also noted that the car was his great-uncle’s and that it was given to him– not the family.
On top of that, her husband pointed out how his son works an after-school job. So, giving his son the car would help relieve some stress since she, her husband, and her husband’s ex all have to take turns chauffeuring her stepson to and from work.
Honestly, though, she just thinks that her husband’s reasoning is outrageous. She believes that since her stepson is only sixteen, he should first get a starter car– not one worth twenty grand.
And if her husband went through with her plan of divvying up the car sale proceeds, she is confident that her stepson would walk away with between four and five thousand dollars.
Then, she thinks that amount of money would be more than enough to purchase a starter car.
Still, even though her husband agrees with her technical logic, he just does not want to do that. Instead, he would much rather keep the car in the family and give it to his son– something that she just cannot understand.
“I am stressed because my husband is basically telling me that he is going to do what he wants, and I don’t get a say,” she vented.
“Aren’t a husband and wife supposed to come to agreements together?”
Her husband is perhaps not being too unreasonable, though, and said that if she had a relative leave behind an inheritance, she would be the sole person in charge of deciding how that money gets spent.
To be honest, though, she does not want that to be the standard in their household. She thought that after getting married, they would make financial decisions as a joint unit.
But regardless of her own perspective, her husband refuses to budge.
In fact, he even said that if she really wanted to sell the car, he would still purchase his son a car of equal value using funds from their joint bank account.