The man tried to argue that her work was not equivalent to his, as he worked nine hours a day and sat in meetings.<\/p>\n
\u201cTry being alone with a toddler for nine hours and get back to me,\u201d the wife told him.<\/p>\n
The screenshot shows the man replying: \u201cI\u2019m just saying whoever earns the money should have more say in how it\u2019s spent\u201d, adding \u201cmaybe we should do an allowance system\u201d.<\/p>\n
The exchange, shared on X, divided social media users, with some agreeing with the husband while others sided with the wife and stay-at-home mum.<\/p>\n
While some argued the income earner should have more of a say, others pointed out the stay-at-home mum was also working and deserved financial freedom.<\/p>\n
\u201cHitting a stay at home mum with \u2018maybe we should do an allowance system\u2019 is signing your own divorce papers,\u201d the original poster of the screenshot said.<\/p>\n
\u201cMen want to be \u2018providers\u2019 so bad but cry and whine endlessly when it comes time to actually provide,\u201d someone commented.<\/p>\n
Others shared that they believed both were in the wrong, as while the money was effectively both of theirs, both should communicate big purchases with each other before they make them.<\/p>\n
\u201cLike this is crazy but also do couples not normally drop a little notice when they\u2019re spending like over $100 on non-essential. I feel like it solves a lot of problems,\u201d one X user commented.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe misogyny in the comments is astounding. Should she have told him? Yeah. Especially if it\u2019s a big amount for their household. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t surprise spend as a couple. But also he\u2019s being controlling, unsympathetic to parental and household duties and patriarchal in response here,\u201d another social media user weighed in.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was wrong to demean her but I would think $200 warrants discussion beforehand. Even in a 2 income marriage we discussed everything over $100 \u2013 not necessarily to veto purchases but to be on the same page as to where the finances stood,\u201d someone else said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBoth are wrong. She should have told him that she is going to buy a present. Then they could have up with a budget together,\u201d someone else replied.<\/p>\n
The original post was viewed nearly half a million times in the first 12 hours and generated discussions online that emphasised the pressure on couples to manage their finances appropriately, particularly with rising costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The man tried to argue that her work was not equivalent to his, as he worked nine hours…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[78777,1443,5432,12448,43665,2174,21932,2219,42,10109,359,43,384,9979,144966,7364,223,40,38,41,39,5143,5834,1842,102,25152],"class_list":["post-534915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-78777","tag-about","tag-between","tag-couples","tag-divides","tag-exchange","tag-gift","tag-gone","tag-headlines","tag-husband","tag-internet","tag-news","tag-people","tag-right","tag-screenshot","tag-text","tag-the","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-viral","tag-weighing","tag-wife","tag-with","tag-wrong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}