After His Wife Secretly Lost Over $9,000 While Online Gambling In Just A Few Weeks, He Cut Off Her Access To Their Finances
This 35-year-old man and his wife, who is 33, have been married for 10 years. They also have one child together, a son, who is 7-years-old.
And while he works as an engineer, his wife is a stay-at-home mom. Regardless, they’ve always had a joint bank account. His wife also has full access to his other financial accounts.
“I have always trusted her and never controlled the money,” he said.
However, just a few weeks ago, he did start to notice there were some weird transactions occurring on one of his accounts– which he rarely accesses or uses. Even stranger, the transactions were going into his wife’s bank account.
According to him, there were multiple money transfers going to her account on various days. So, he decided to confront his wife and ask what she needed the funds for.
“But she tried to evade the questions,” he recalled.
He didn’t give up, though, and continued pressing his wife for answers. So, she eventually confessed, and he’s been shocked ever since.
Apparently, his wife had been using all the money to go on online betting sites and gamble. The worst part? She had lost a whopping $9,000-plus over just a few weeks!
After his wife fessed up, she did admit to having a gambling problem. She also claimed that she was trying to quit it.
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“So I decided to cut off her access to our finances and give her an allowance,” he revealed.
As you can probably imagine, this did not make his wife happy, either. Instead, she became very upset and accused him of being both unfair and controlling.
But, from his perspective, he thinks his response was reasonable given how much of their money she’s lost.
“And I’m not sure if I can trust her again after what she did,” he vented.
Regardless, with money now putting such a strain on their relationship, he’s been left wondering if cutting his wife off and only providing her with an allowance was really the wrong way to handle the situation.
How would you feel if your spouse lost that much money in such a short amount of time? Do you think cutting off his wife was the best thing to restrict her gambling while protecting their money? What would you have done if you were in his shoes?
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