She Sold Her Husband’s Expensive Watch To Fund Their Son’s Medical Procedure Behind His Back, And Her Husband Keeps Saying She Stole From Him
This woman is currently married, and she and her husband have a 6-year-old son together.
And recently, after her son had a medical issue and needed to have a procedure done as soon as possible, she felt like she had to take drastic measures.
For some context, her husband hasn’t actually worked at all for the past nine months, ever since he left his last job. So, she has been the sole breadwinner in their household, and her income provides barely enough for her family to scrape by.
Back when her husband was employed, though, he had a pretty high-paying job. He also wasn’t very fiscally responsible, which is why he barely saved anything and instead purchased a bunch of expensive items.
“He had to sell most of it to be able to buy new clothes or get a new iPhone,” she recalled.
However, when her son got sick, she remembered that her husband still had an expensive wristwatch that he typically wore for important occasions.
She brought up the idea of selling the watch to fund their son’s medical procedure, too, but her husband was completely against it. He refused to hand over the watch and simply told her to “find some other way to get the money.”
On top of that, her husband even suggested that they just get their son to stay on medications to “manage the pain” until she’s able to figure it out.
“But the procedure was advised as soon as possible, and I just could not bear seeing my son going through so much pain,” she explained.
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This pushed her to go ahead and sell her husband’s watch behind his back. Then, she was able to pay for her son’s treatment.
Well, upon her husband finding out about what she did, he has been livid. He claimed that she stole from him and that he couldn’t even look at her the same way anymore.
“He didn’t yell or react harshly, just kept saying that I committed theft and that I overstepped and betrayed his trust,” she detailed.
“After that, he stopped saying anything else to me, just that what I did was stealing.”
To make matters worse, her in-laws heard about the situation, too, and they all took her husband’s side. Her mother-in-law also urged her husband to either divorce her or get a lockbox to protect his stuff because she’s already stolen from him once.
In the wake of all this drama, she’s feeling devastated – particularly by how her husband and his family are treating her. She genuinely thought she was doing the right thing.
“But now he’s making me feel like what I did was really stealing, regardless of the reason why I did what I did,” she vented.
This has left her wondering who’s truly in the wrong here and if selling her husband’s watch to afford their son’s medical procedure was really so unreasonable.
Can you believe her husband valued keeping his watch more over helping their son? Would you have done the same thing in her shoes?
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