Skid shaking down and manipulating DH for money once again
I am so annoyed and pissed off. 2 days after skid got paid at the beginning of the month he cries to daddy that he is broke, doesn’t know how he will eat or fill his car with gas to get to work. DH e-transfers him $250 dollars as a loan, never mind the fact that skid still owes $1100 from November and has made no payments to that.
I told DH that he is not parenting him but enabling him. According to our Counsellor I should tell him my opinion and then back off. So far this is not working for me, especially since giving skid $250 at that point landed us in over draft before we got paid again.
I have pre-marital savings of $35k and DH wonders why I keep it separate really. DH is a bit of a train wreck with budgeting and I am a super saver, so we already clash.
Now we return from vacation and the very morning of our return, skid is texting whining that he can’t afford a hair cut and FML etc. manipulating daddy once again.
At least DH told him to come over and help him make a budget. DH told me he is not going to make any promises of money until they go over things and then sleep on it before taking any action. I was hopeful but worried.
Skid comes over all pouty, he does not want to go through the exercise just wants money it’s obvious. Skid brags how he will only eat organic meat and vegetables even though it’s so expensive, wtf? Your broke but you will be that much of a snit and I know for a fact how much fast food and take out garbage he eats because he brags about when he is not fishing for money.
Over dinner that I was nice enough to cook, DH offers to take him Costco shopping on our dime. I almost lost it but held back because I will have that conversation in private.
I checked in during the budget process and skid is not willing to cut his expenses, such as his cell phone bill that’s $130 month because snow flake needs 15 GB of data and still goes over because he has to stream music and it’s inconvenient to wait until he has WiFi. He lays $350 month to a music store for equipment rental.
Skid is over spending and trying to convince daddy that he isn’t. I snooped, I know I should not do it but I did. I found out that skid purchased $650 guitar 4 days before getting the $250 and after wards spent $350 on another one.
I suggest that DH set up a mint account for skid, to see where the money is going. If he did set it up with him he would see the spending but DH does not have the balls.
So DH is going through a useless exercise and wasting his time and will end up giving skid money.
I left them alone to do I don’t lose my shit. I guess it’s wine o’clock.
Please separate finances now.
Please separate finances now. Have a joint account for household expenses only which you both contribute 1/2. Plus insist DH have a retirement fund that he can not touch until he retires. THEN he can be as generous with SS as he wants to be.
Before I separated the finances DH was very generous with SD, paying for everything our of our joint account. Made him look like a big man. When it started coming out of his pocket and his pocket only, he became less generous.
I wonder what these mooching skids would say if we told them they are going to be footing the bill for our DH's when they need the money to stay in a senior living center. Nobody seems to consider the future and it come -oh- so fast!
I am seriously thinking of
I am seriously thinking of separating finances but he will have to sign a post nup stating he is responsible for his own debt that he incurs. Also I would not contribute half because I paid cash for 90% of the house so he can cover the rest.
Don't know how long you have
Don't know how long you have been married but after about 3 years of supporting DH so he could send SD to the expensive college she insisted on, and place hundreds of dollars in her bank account each month, I split finances and I told him he was going to have to start paying for 1/2 of the household expenses. I also said I wanted him to sign a quit claim deed for a house I paid for before we got married. He went ballistic but I stood firm and told him he could take it or leave. We had been married about 3 years, and it was possible I would have been out some amount of money - but not as much if I had continued to accept the situation. In the end he thought about it, considered that it was much cheaper to pay 1/2 of the expenses instead of renting a place, and agreed.
Excellent advice from Sandye.
Excellent advice from Sandye. I totally agree.
Your DH is enabling his good
Your DH is enabling his good for nothing son, and I'm sorry to say, but you are going in the direction of enabling your DH.
Simply separate finances, and
Simply separate finances, and let DH dig his own hole lol...
Even though we have separate finances, I do buy allot of things extra for us, but every time I hear SO bought something for Aergia she wanted, not needed or she blew her money on crap and not food, I with draw all cash from the relationship, SO is use to me paying for things, I simply stop or I say - your card please... he once told me, but I do not have money you know this, I smile and say.. and yet you bought your daughter a brand new Iphone.... card please...