He Told His Wife She Needs To Start Earning More Money Because She Keeps Spending Frivolously And Undoing All Of His Hard Work To Save
When you’re married, having a solid financial game plan for your everyday expenses is crucial if one spouse makes more money than the other. When you don’t have one, the marriage can fall apart.
One man recently had to confront his wife and tell her she needed to earn more money after she’s been frivolously spending.
He and his wife both work and live in a house together. Although his wife earns a decent living in her field, he still makes around seven times more than her annual salary.
Even though he makes the most money, he still tries his best to spend it wisely and budget to keep their household afloat.
He does like to indulge in his hobbies occasionally, but he still strives to get a good deal when he does. However, his wife is a different story.
“I am not frugal, mind you, just trying to make sensible financial decisions,” he said. “I feel like all my efforts to save money are undone by her.”
His wife has been spending a large portion of her salary on things he doesn’t deem necessary, like an expensive Pilates studio membership, pricey makeup, overpriced clothes, doctors who aren’t in their insurance plan, etc.
His wife has gotten to the point where she hardly pays attention to how much money she spends daily.
While she isn’t putting them in a hole or destroying their finances completely, he worries that these habits will add up someday and doesn’t appreciate how he has to be the one to be money-conscious.
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Anytime he’s tried to remind his wife to be a bit more mindful about her spending, she’s blown him off and gotten very defensive.
“I don’t spend the amount of money she burns through on a monthly basis for the most random things,” he explained.
“This month, I purchased a software router that costs about half as much as the pair of jeans she wore once.”
“So, I told her that if she wants to spend this much, she needs to earn at least this much, and we should split finances so that more of my paycheck goes towards the mortgage and not random monthly expenses.”
After talking to his wife, she became a bit more vulnerable and told him she gets excited about spending money and buying things because she grew up in a poor family and couldn’t buy nice things for herself.
Once he heard that, he wondered if he was rude for putting his foot down and telling her she needed to earn more money.
Was he rude, or does his wife need to keep her spending in check?
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