She’s Refusing To Let Her Husband’s Parents Live With Them Even Though Her Husband Was Fine With Her Own Parents Moving In To Save Money
This 38-year-old woman’s parents are both in their seventies and have been living with her and her husband, who is 39. Her husband has never had any problem with this arrangement, either.
Now, they do have three kids– two sons, who are 10 and 7-years-old, as well as an 8-year-old daughter. But, their home is quite large, so everyone in her family is able to fit comfortably and have some space left over.
Originally, her parents decided to move in due to the high cost of renting.
“My parents came to live with us due to the fact that it’s a lot cheaper to live with us than rent,” she said.
However, just yesterday, her husband approached her with a new proposition– asking if his parents could live with them, too.
And despite her husband supporting her parents moving in with them, she turned down his idea about his own parents moving in for a variety of reasons.
First of all, she feels like caring for her parents is already difficult, and she doesn’t want to take on any more stress. Secondly, she claimed that her in-laws are perfectly fine with money and don’t need to move in with them in order to live comfortably.
Well, her husband didn’t understand her perspective and just claimed that her reasoning was “ridiculous.”
He believes that because she’s a stay-at-home mom and their kids are in school for seven hours each day, she doesn’t have much else going on or eating up her time.
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However, she tried to tell her husband that being a stay-at-home mom while caring for her older parents isn’t just a walk in the park. Still, he claimed that they had enough money and space to just hire a nanny to help out or figure out another arrangement.
Despite that, she refused to budge, and she told her husband that she simply didn’t want her in-laws to live with them.
At that point, her husband claimed that he didn’t care about her opinion anymore and told her that his parents would still visit– no matter if she liked it or not. On top of that, her husband said that it was “his money” paying for their home.
“I work on a weekend day once every one to two months, and he makes a lot more than me, and just a lot in general,” she noted.
Anyway, ever since their fight, her husband has been giving her the “cold shoulder” and refusing to talk to her.
“But I really don’t think I’m the [jerk],” she vented.
So now, with her and her husband stuck in a stalemate, she’s unsure if refusing to let his parents also live at their home really is the wrong thing to do.
Do you think it was right of her husband to play the income card? Even so, is it fair that her parents get to live with them, but her husband’s parents don’t? How can she reconcile this issue to avoid damaging their marriage?
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