Husband Wants To Use Wife’s Inheritance Money To Help Out His Family, But She Thinks They’ve Already Done Enough For Them
by Matthew Gilligan

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Things get complicated when you’re in a relationship with someone.
Because, for a lot of folks, once you’re with someone, you’re also intertwined with their other family members, too.
This woman knows all about it when it comes to her husband’s family and she’s not too crazy about what’s been going on.
Is she doing anything wrong?
Read what she had to say on Reddit and see what you think.
AITA for not using my inheritance (from my parents) for my husband’s family?
“My husband (52) and myself (50) have been married for 31 years.
We purchased his parents’ farm several years ago and paid for it with a mortgage. We have since paid that mortgage off. We also built our forever home on the farm and it is also paid for and we raise cattle on the farm.
There’s a big issue…
His family is always asking for help. His sisters specifically and a couple of his nephews. For context, we took care of his father, mother, and a Down syndrome sister when nobody else in his family would take care of them.
We were the only ones of his siblings who still had young children at home but we felt that if we didn’t take care of them the state was going to step in and take them away.
They did the right thing.
In my family you take care of your family so we took them in and never looked back. However I think his family resented us for this and somehow feels like they are owed something because we own the family farm.
And for some reason my husband thinks he has to take care of his other sisters even though there is nothing wrong with them except they have low IQs.
There’s some tension…
I have inherited a decent amount of money from my parents. My husband doesn’t know the specifics and is upset that I won’t disclose the amount. He doesn’t have access to the account.
He wants me to take some of the money and build a house on our farm (his family farm) for his sisters to live in so they won’t have to pay rent anymore or live in apartments.
This is pretty ridiculous.
He wants us to pay their property taxes and insurance because “they won’t be able to afford that” but they can pay their utilities. He doesn’t want to charge them rent.
Why should I use my inheritance that my parents worked themselves to the bone to earn and pass on to me so that my husband’s lazy sisters can sit in a brand new house on their family’s farm and never have to pay property tax or insurance or rent?
I feel like this is my money and I shouldn’t have to spend it on his family.
I want to put the majority of it in trust funds to our two children so I can pass it on to them. And to be honest I am seriously thinking about just taking my inheritance and getting a divorce and living happily ever after.
AITA?”
Check out what folks had to say on Reddit.
This reader said he’s NTA.

Another individual offered some advice.

This Reddit user shared their thoughts.

Another person spoke up.

And this individual shared their thoughts.

There’s only so much that people can do to help out other folks…
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