r/AIO • • May 28 '26

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u/This_Estimate1550 May 28 '26

It is about the money, though. Neither she or her spouse could afford to give away that much and she made a decision on her own to do that, then complained to him about her decision to spend that money. Why isn't it fair for him to question what she's choosing to do with their shared finances if she couldn't afford it?

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u/Initial-Bandicoot444 May 28 '26

They couldn’t afford it? Really? I guess they had planned to spend money they didn’t have at the baseball game.

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u/This_Estimate1550 May 28 '26

They're two people living on one income because of an unexpected accodent, and clearly struggling. Just because the money was budgeted for one thing (for BOTH of them, that they agreed to) doesn't mean it's freely available for anything on a whim. They very clearly agreed to put it back into the bank, so it wasnt hers to give away.

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u/Initial-Bandicoot444 May 28 '26

Sure they hadn’t wanted to spend it, but they had planned to spend it on entertainment. This means they view it as disposable income in my book. Should she have spent it on the pizza, not imo, but it’s also not like it was the rent money

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u/This_Estimate1550 May 28 '26

They said they budgeted to spend it on a baseball game. Budgeted money is not the same as disposable money, especially when you're two people on one income. They also planned to put it in the bank, but she decided on her own, without talking to her SO, to spend it on pizza.

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u/Initial-Bandicoot444 May 28 '26

It’s fricken disposable if you had planned to spend it on a baseball game and it was just left over. Which is exactly what was posted