Woman fed up with being the household’s sole financial manager and ATM for her husband and mother-in-law, finally quits handling the money: ‘I pay all the bills, buy all the food, I'm the one who gives her money when she overspends, I was done’

There's managing household finances for your family, and then there's playing unpaid chief financial officer for a game show where no good deed goes unpunished and every relative feels entitled to your last dime. Welcome to life on Team "Money Martyr," where your in-laws guilt-trip you for keeping the lights on, and your spouse treats the shared bank account like a slot machine. It's a fun test of who can weaponize their incompetence the most, and while there aren't any winners, you are always the loser.

In this household, you pay the bills, buy the groceries, and bail out everyone from the mother-in-law to the serially ungrateful sister-in-law, all while being branded money-hungry by folks who think a joint account is their personal GoFundMe.

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Try explaining the math to anyone? Forget it. Your only role is to magically replenish the balance and absorb snide remarks, it’s the financial equivalent of being the family’s punching bag and piggy bank.
After 15 years of this circus, when your husband’s petty moves leave you stranded and your mother-in-law interprets a bounced transaction as some diabolical financial coup, deciding you’re done being the family’s ATM is probably the only sane game plan.
"AITA for completely stepping away from my household's finances?"

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