“When People Ask Why I’m Not In Our Family Pictures, I’m Going To Tell Them The Truth”
Recently, a man turned to the True Off My Chest community to share an incident that left him beyond upset.
“A couple of weeks ago, my wife asked if we could have professional family photos taken,” the Redditor wrote. He said that money was too tight between their daughter’s birthday, a trip to her parents’ for Thanksgiving, and Christmas.
“I asked her if we could wait until after Christmas; she said no,” he recounted. The author’s wife never brought it up, until one of his tires blew out. The Redditor had no choice but to take from the family’s already tight emergency fund, but little did he know there was not much left in there.
A man broke down after finding out that his wife blew their emergency fund saving on a family photoshoot they couldn’t afford
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And this is what people commented about this whole situation
"Give her the option of counseling or divorce", "Separate your finances now". Yeah, right. If money is that tight, counseling is it ab-so-lu-te-ly unaffordable. And divorce or moving house, so renting an extra place (plus paying deposit)? What pointless noise these give off as 'advice'.
Might be these advisors are from another country where such problems do not exist. It‘s easy to forget other countries are not as fortunate as your own.
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Reminds me of a crewman I had once, The job involved long days at work and he was often on the road. He was looking really down one time and I asked him what was wrong. His wife was regularily spending all the money he was making partying and treating her friends. Their bank account was drained. Didn't want to leave her so I told him to get a sole account that his pay went into and a joint account that had enough money for expenses.
Glad you were there to give him good advice. The first year we were married my husband went and bought a truck with a $370/month payment when money was already tight without even talking to me, and like an idiot I let him continue to ruin our finances for another whole year before finally wising up.
Load More Replies... Anytime someone plays the "I deserve it" card to justify spending money they probably shouldn't, I always want to say "Do you not deserve to have some facsimile of being financially secure?"
"Give her the option of counseling or divorce", "Separate your finances now". Yeah, right. If money is that tight, counseling is it ab-so-lu-te-ly unaffordable. And divorce or moving house, so renting an extra place (plus paying deposit)? What pointless noise these give off as 'advice'.
Might be these advisors are from another country where such problems do not exist. It‘s easy to forget other countries are not as fortunate as your own.
Load More Replies... Reminds me of a crewman I had once, The job involved long days at work and he was often on the road. He was looking really down one time and I asked him what was wrong. His wife was regularily spending all the money he was making partying and treating her friends. Their bank account was drained. Didn't want to leave her so I told him to get a sole account that his pay went into and a joint account that had enough money for expenses.
Glad you were there to give him good advice. The first year we were married my husband went and bought a truck with a $370/month payment when money was already tight without even talking to me, and like an idiot I let him continue to ruin our finances for another whole year before finally wising up.
Load More Replies... Anytime someone plays the "I deserve it" card to justify spending money they probably shouldn't, I always want to say "Do you not deserve to have some facsimile of being financially secure?"
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