She Wants To Give Her Husband An Ultimatum That Either He Stops Ordering Food For Delivery Or She’s Leaving Him Because He Has Wiped Out His Bank Account
This 27-year-old woman has been married to her husband, 32, for two years, and they don’t have children.
Once they began working from home at the start of the pandemic, they had a hard time getting motivated and finding the energy to do things on a day-to-day basis.
Because of this, they got into the bad habit of constantly ordering food instead of making meals at home.
While there’s obviously nothing wrong with ordering food sometimes, she believes that she and her husband went out of control and were addicted to it. They would order both lunch and dinner regularly.
“I happen to hear a snippet of a phone with his mom sometime later, talking about how his bank account is nearly empty and how his credit cards are maxed out. Concerning. We don’t share our bank accounts (thankfully), and I have some savings, so we’re not in dire straits. His mother also pressures him to stop with the [food delivery service]. He says he knows, and he’ll delete the account,” she said.
After hearing this and realizing how much of a detriment this was to them financially, she told him that they needed to stop ordering food so frequently.
From then on, the number of times they ordered was greatly reduced. Her rule was that she’d only order them food if they were struggling or needed a quick snack. Even though her ultimate goal was to eliminate ordering food entirely, she thought this was a vast improvement.
Time passed, and she eventually returned to working in an office while her husband continued working from home.
“I notice grocery delivery bags. I talk to him about it, and he says he’ll stop. Time goes by, and I don’t see any more delivery bags until I go to throw out the trash one night and see empty soda bottles and more delivery bags. I talk to him again, and he says he’ll stop, and he’ll remove his information from the site,” she explained.
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A year later, her husband’s company went through a restructuring, and he was laid off. While she was comfortable with the idea of financially supporting him for the time being, she didn’t want him to slack off on finding a new job and spend too much time being unemployed.
In addition, she reminded him that they needed to be frugal now more than ever.
“I noticed delivery bags in the trash again today, several months later. I’m pretty fed up with it,” she shared.
Throughout their entire marriage, the frequency of her husband ordering food has been a consistent problem. She’s understandably sick of dealing with this never-ending situation.
In order to try to work on the issue, she and her husband have attempted meal prep, and they’ve also ordered from several companies in the past.
Even though these alternatives have temporarily gone well, her husband always resorts to ordering food over and over again.
As a way of being sneaky, her husband has always waited until she was at work to order food for himself. Despite cooking meals together all the time and having tons of leftovers, plus other groceries in the fridge and pantry, her husband still continues this behavior.
Also, he has repeatedly rejected the idea of going to therapy. Since she feels like she’s out of options, she wonders if she should give her husband an ultimatum: if he doesn’t stop ordering food, she’ll divorce him.
Upon reflection, she doesn’t know if this would work, either.
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