I worked hard to save up money to buy a house for my mom, and you took it to pay your brother's bride price? Give the money back and let's get divorced.

I worked hard to save up money to buy a house for my mom, and you took it to pay your brother's bride price? Give the money back and let's get divorced.

Poor couples grieve over everything; the biggest conflicts between husband and wife often come from money. As the old saying goes, marry a man, marry a man, for clothing and food. In a family, the man should originally be the main breadwinner, but our family is different. After we got married, we each used our own money, and all expenses were shared. I had already done this much, yet my husband still did not have any self-awareness.

My husband and I met through a friend's introduction. He is a city person, while I come from the countryside. My father died early, and my mother raised me through great hardship, so our family circumstances were poor, and my mother-in-law always looked down on me. After marriage, in order to keep my mother-in-law from nitpicking at me, my husband and I split all household expenses equally, so my mother-in-law could not find fault with me either. I always worked hard and saved money painstakingly, just so that one day I could buy a house in the city and bring my mother over from our old home in the countryside. I am usually very frugal and never buy clothes or cosmetics recklessly. Every day I prepare lunch at home and bring it to the office.

My husband is different from me. Maybe because he grew up in the city since childhood, he is used to spending freely. Smoking, drinking, he does it all. Every few days he also gets together a bunch of fair-weather friends to eat, play cards, and sing karaoke. Even though he has been married to me for two years, he is still a payday-to-payday spender just like before marriage, and in a year he cannot save much money. Although my husband and I have different values and life philosophies, we do not have any conflicts in other respects, so life went on neither salty nor bland, yet peacefully enough.

It was not until some time ago that my brother-in-law was about to get married and was preparing to buy a marital home. My mother-in-law hinted that we, as his older brother and sister-in-law, should show some support. At the time I thought to myself, your son spends money like water and uses up his monthly salary completely, and you expect us to show support, so I kept silent the whole time. But before many days passed, my brother-in-law suddenly came to my home and thanked us for taking out 50,000 yuan to pay the down payment on his house. Hearing this news, I was completely stunned. Although I had never managed my husband's money, I knew he had almost no savings. Where did this 50,000 yuan come from? Thinking of this, I suddenly felt a chill and hurriedly found my bankbook, only to discover that 50,000 yuan had been withdrawn by someone.

I took the bankbook and questioned my husband, but he said we are husband and wife, my savings are joint marital property, and now his younger brother urgently needed money, so it was perfectly normal for him to use it. Hearing his words, I flew into a rage. I loudly scolded him: "I worked hard to save up money to buy a house for my mom, and you took it to pay your brother's bride price? Give the money back and let's get divorced." I had been married to him for two years, and all along I lived frugally just to save money to buy a house for my mom, while he was generous to himself but had never bought anything for me. Now he even had the nerve to take away my hard-earned money. How could there be such a shameless person as him? His behavior truly chilled my heart. I think I really cannot go on living with him anymore, but before I leave, should I take this money back? Everyone, help me judge what is right. Was what he did right?

(From a reader submission. The images in this article come from the internet.