'Initially, I didn't believe it': Wife questions husband's motives for wanting to split their lottery winnings with his best friend

It is often said that if you have an unexpected windfall of cash, you should tell nary a soul and lawyer up immediately. You'd be surprised how quickly even the most distant relatives and vague acquaintances come out of the woodwork once they catch a whiff of cash, looking for a handout and saying something about how you owe them because of that one thing they did for you that one time.

This advice gets passed around any time the topic of winning the lottery is brought up, and everyone likely has it hopefully memorized, just in case they ever get the chance to use it. Still, the chances of this are about as good as winning the lottery, so it's more likely that no one reading this will get the chance to put it to good use—myself included. And, yet, we have this information locked into our minds, ever hopeful—taking up neural memory space that would have probably been better used for remembering to do that report you have due next week.

This poster claims that she has, in fact, won the lottery and is wondering what to do about a situation that has presented itself within her private circle. On hearing the news, her husband immediately suggested that they share a third of the winnings with his longtime friend, making other vaguely dubious suggestions in the process.

Readers were suspicious of the motives, and a few comments were even theorizing that there might be something more going on between the husband and his friend, predicting that the duo might be trying to cheat her out of the entire winnings or that the two might be in a secret relationship. (Worth noting here that Reddit likes to try and solve a relationship mystery with the plot of Grace and Frankie wherever possible.)

Anyways, whatever's happening here, commenters were confident that the wife wasn't in the wrong for refusing to split the winnings. Read on for their judgments and screenshots of the original thread. Next, see this woman who took the internet's advice and broke up with her boyfriend over a rental disagreement.