Marriage is a Blessing, Dammit
When I saw the title of this CNN Money article, I couldn’t click on it fast enough. Yes, my husband overspends! He walks into Walgreens for nail clippers and walks out thirty bucks lighter. We often joke that he has a money tree in the backyard. This article is going to help me finally understand the deeper meaning – his traumatic childhood? His misguided wants and needs? His unrealistic expectations? God bless him.
Boy was I let down. The article explains that if you have an overspending spouse, you need to get them to “own” the problem. Oh that’s helpful. If he would even dare think it’s a problem in the first place. But wait, there’s an answer for that too: Get separate bank accounts. Yeah, I spit on that suggestion too. Been there; done that; don’t work.
As I read the article sentence by gripping sentence, my hope for enlightenment dissipated because, as usual, it is my fault. I need to lighten up because “marriage is one of life’s great blessings” and “divorce is expensive.” Clearly this author is not married or is a divorce attorney. Yes, I get that in the grand scheme of our lives, my husband’s splurges aren’t going to bankrupt us. But damn, I’d have more money in the bank if he’d just stick with the nail clippers.
Walgreens? Wow, pretty upscale. Must be spending thousands per trip.
The best solution is to not get married, then you control everything, of course you have no one else to blame for your lack of progress. If trips to a drug store are fucking up your financial plans, then you need more than some article off CNN to save you.
omg! i am laughing so hard right now! it is all your fault, because you are a strong, controlling woman, just like his mother. yes, Freud is right…all things lead back to a woman, good or bad, we are the true source for everything that happens in this world, because we are the half of the species that know how to get things done. so he is just spending money to prove to you that he CAN!