Abby Connolly
“My wife wants to give Jen a few hundred dollars every month and to start watching her two older kids so Jen can keep working. Personally, I think that idea is short-sighted because Jen won’t be able to work after the new baby comes.”
He thinks that rather than giving Jen hundreds of dollars, which would only end up being a temporary solution to her troubles, he’d rather him and his wife use their shared finances to hire a lawyer for Jen that would force her kids’ fathers to pay her the proper child support she needs.
In his eyes, it would be like biting a bigger bullet. However, his wife told him that solution wouldn’t put food on the table for her kids every week, unlike the consistent money they’d send her.
He then had to sit down with his wife, review their entire budget, and ask her how she thought she could support her sister financially because he couldn’t understand how.
“She got mad at me and called me heartless for not wanting to help,” he recalled.
“It turned into a fight, and I ended up telling her that if she wants to support her sister like this, then she is going to need to work more or get a second job because I’m not compromising our family budget long-term.”
Now, his wife is still angry with him and thinks they should still send her sister money without having to work more.
Is he acting cruel for not wanting to send his wife’s sister money, or is he being smart?
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