He Told Wife To Leave Their House After She Stole His Mom’s Credit Card, Her Dad’s Credit Card, And Then Used His New One Without His Permission To Buy Whatever She Wanted
In January, this man’s wife was fired from her job.
While working, she saw a debit card on the floor, and since it was a Chase card, she thought it was hers.
The next day, she bought juice boxes for their children before dropping them off at daycare and heading to work.
Two hours later, cops arrived at her workplace and arrested her because the debit card she’d picked up off the ground and then used was a co-worker’s.
Around April or May, his wife developed an online gambling addiction. She didn’t tell him about it, but he discovered this in the middle of July.
“In the interim of this time, I caught her at the end of June using up $1,400 over the two-to-three-month period,” he said.
He didn’t find out about rapid spending until after he looked at his banking history and saw strange charges from phone apps and games that he disputed with his bank.
Later, he learned that after she’d depleted all her own savings, she was using his card (not a card connected to a shared account for mutual bills) and spending money from his savings account on these gambling apps.
Then, halfway through July, he started becoming firmer with his wife about her behavior.
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“She stole my mom’s card from her wallet, along with her dad’s card, for XYZ habits or whatever else she bought. I had to convince my mom to avoid getting cops involved (probably a bad action on my part, 100%),” he explained.
When he pleaded with his mother not to call the police, he assured her that he’d try to find therapy for his wife since this situation was serious, and he knew he couldn’t help his wife stop her behavior on his own.
Unfortunately, his wife didn’t seem receptive to the idea of going to therapy, but he understood the idea that you can’t make someone recover from an addiction if they don’t want to get better. He has suffered from substance addiction in the past, so he understands how difficult recovery can be.
In August, he got a new card and reset his PayPal password so that his wife had no access to his money anymore.
At the end of the month, he discovered that his wife was spending all his money again because she’d found where he’d hidden his new card.
Luckily, his bank sent him notifications of the suspicious activity and froze his account a few days ago.
The bank requested that he look over all the transactions and verify which ones were made by him. Once again, his wife had spent a significant amount of money.
After this ordeal, he spoke with his wife about his concerns. He told her that it’s difficult to have faith in her now, and he’s worried about how her behavior will affect their children down the line.
“I asked her to pack her bag and have her sister come pick her up to bring her to her parents for the time being, as I cannot trust her words or actions,” he continued.
He doesn’t want divorce to be an option. From his perspective, this needs to be a wake-up call for his wife.
He’s hoping that she will finally realize that she has a choice, and he wants her to choose him and their family instead of her addiction.
Understandably, he wants to see his wife recover. But he can’t help but feel terrible for kicking his wife out of the house. He’s concerned about how his children will be feeling, but he believes that this is the right decision.
Do you think he was wrong to make his wife leave?
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