Wife’s spending habit enabled by the Husband

Wife do not take advantage of your husband if you are a spender and are creating uncontrollable debt. Do not shift the blame and make it all about him when more than likely it is something that you have done year after year. I know there are wives that are spenders and spend even more when their emotional needs are not met. There are husbands that have left marriages because of the wife’s spending.

Now there are husbands who have enabled their wives by not saying nothing because they felt eventually the wife would stop. However, six, seven, some even ten years later he is fed up and wants to leave. But when he thinks about it, he has not ever said anything to the wife.

If this is you, wife, how are you going to correct this situation? Do you apologize and ask for forgiveness and turn over a new leaf or do you let this continue?

If you choose to turn over a new leaf, that means you have to break those old habits and also might mean getting rid of some of your friends that also encouraged you to spend. Steps to take:

(1) Do not spend when unhappy.

(2) Do not call your girlfriends that encouraged you to spend unnecessarily.

(3) When you go shopping have a list and stick to it. Do not be persuaded by the credit card offers when you walk in the store.

(4) Stay focused when you are in the store. Do not fall for the trap of all the new items that you did not know were there.

(5) When you are by yourself  – do not let loneliness cause you to go shopping and spend just to have something to do.

(6) Create a chart detailing what you are saving and show it to your husband after 3 months. He will be proud that you are taking a step to stop spending wrecklessly during the marriage.

Wives, congratulations for taking this step to ending spending uncontrollably. Your marriage will be better for it.