Winning the Lotto is a dream come true for most couples, but this husband says that he would have preferred not winning the money at all.
“My wife and I are extremely fortunate to have won a decent amount of money from Lotto recently,” the husband writes in a recent Reddit post.
He admits that it wasn't the top prize, but it was enough for them to pay off their sizable mortgage and still have money left over for holidays.
“The mortgage was by far our biggest weekly cost and with that gone we could both comfortably cut our hours back at work to only school hours and spend some more time with our kids, this was always a daydream we spoke about when we bought lotto tickets, I assumed this is what we would both do,” he said.
However, when they got the money and paid off their house, things immediately turned bad.
His wife started talking about how amazing it was going to be for her to be able to stop working completely; this shocked her husband.
“Even with the mortgage gone, we would still have to work at least school hours to keep our current standard of living, and on my salary alone, things would be tight,” he continued.
When he asked her if she was serious about it, she told him that it was her winning ticket, and she got to decide what she would do with the money.
“I tried to reason with her, say she could use some of the extra to take some unpaid leave here and there but she needs to keep her job, when I said ‘if I'm only working school hours’ she absolutely flipped and started accusing me of being a gold digger and ruining this for her, how she deserved it after working so much of her life etc,” he added.
A few days later, he tried to have the conversation with her again, but she refused to budge and told him that it didn’t matter because she had already resigned.
“I lost it and told her I'm not going through with this, and if she's not going to share the winnings, which is under both of our names, I'll divorce her and get half through the house and therefore half the winnings anyway. This started another screaming match where she continued to call me a gold digger,” he continued.
“I'm absolutely exhausted and lost. I feel like my wife has been replaced by an imposter. I would've preferred not winning if I knew this was going to happen,” he concluded.
He asked Reddit users if he would be in the wrong to ask his wife for a divorce.
Most users were on his side, with one saying, “If she keeps making dumb decisions, go through with the divorce. She seems to think that she can only do things her way, and that’s not realistic.”
Another commented, “Divorce her and take your half. She doesn't give a f**k about you, your feelings, or your marriage. Winning the lotto has revealed her true character. Move on.”
“It sounds like your wife has, in her head, been separating from you for some time. You are not a team in her head. Start divorce proceedings. Get a lawyer, and make clear that while you used to both buy lotto tickets, you agreed as a couple to buy only one because of joint finances, and you expect half the winnings,” responded another.
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