Well my fiance and I have had a long engagements and have talked about everything from finances, religion and. Children. I thought we had really talked about all the big stuff. Until I said after we had kids I would want to SAH. He said i would be a disgtaceful loser to throw away my degree (i am in school to be a physician assistAnt). We had a huge fight and now I am not sure how important this is or even if we should decide now....these are hypothetical children after all.. but I don't want to be resentful later.

I am sooo stressed about finances and I don't know what to do. I'm trying to find work around my kids school schedule because I can't afford daycare but it's just not happening. I just want to cry.

I took over grandma's life. Managed her care and finances for 7 yrs because her son and daughter my MIL and uncle in law are such fuck ups they would have left her in the street and pissed away everything. Grandma has peacefully passed, imagine both their shock when after the estate was settled they both recieved $75grand. Im glad i could do it for them but i cringe when hearing MIL start to make plans on how to blow it. It is her $ but she doesnt have a pot to piss in. This should be fun to watch. BTW i did not receive any $ for doing this, and that was fine with me.

No, you are not "too busy" to help out with finances, you just don't want to give up all your little clubs.

I'm done with my MIL. She's a horrible, ungrateful person. I managed not to say anything nasty. I wasn't rude. I told DH that if he wants to support her (messed up childhood-he wants to pay so he doesn't "owe" her anything at all - this is important to him), fine. He is responsible for handling those arrangements (no reminders from me) - I will have nothing more to do with her. MIL is upset only because DH is flaky with money (I handle all our finances) and she's afraid he'll forget. Best decision I've made in a long time and now I'm having a vodka and calming down with truu.

After years of verbal/emotional abuse from my parents, I finally realized at age 38 that is was NOT cool and I do NOT deserve to be treated that way. Now I am a stepmom, do not want to be harsh with my stepson,like my parnts were with me, but do not want to be walked all over either. I live in a small gossipy town and counseling is not an option, and finances wwould make it difficult to go to another town for counseling. Stepson seems spoiled but everyone is spolied compared to how I was raised lol

No DH-it's not me being negetive that is making business bad. There is no work. Yes I am negetive about the lack of money, but why shouldn't I be? We have no money. The jobs you have done haven't been big ones and I am very worried about our finances. That's not negetive-that's realistic!

If a wife is someone who takes care of the kids, cooks, cleans, manages the household finances & other money & family business matters, is a personal assistant & a sex slave then f*ck it, I need a wife too! How did all this lopsided division of work ethic occur anyway???

So, I just have to tell 'someone' but obviously can't tell anyone IRL. Today I sat down to figure out my finances so I could work out how much life insurance I need. I have a paid-off condo worth $245K. I have $120K in cash (to buy a bigger place), and $70K in mutual funds, and not 1 penny of debt. I am a 36 year old single mother. Go me!

I am running our finances into the ground and my husband has no idea. I'm too scared to tell him.