His Wife Thinks He’s Spoiling Their Daughter Since He Bought Her A Mercedes, Gifted Her A Trip To Italy, And Gives Her $8,000 A Month As An Allowance
This 45-year-old man and his 40-year-old wife, Linda, have one daughter together named Sarah, who is 20-years-old. And since Sarah is his only child, he always wants to give her the best of the best.
More recently, though, his wife Linda has started to accuse him of “overdoing it” and spoiling their daughter, and it’s causing some major tension in their marriage.
For some context, he believes that Sarah has always been a great kid – calling her smart, driven, and kind. That’s why, once she turned 17, he decided to buy her a new car.
He didn’t just buy her any old car, either. Rather, he actually purchased Sarah a Mercedes G-Wagon.
“Yes, it was extravagant, but she’d worked so hard in school, and I wanted to reward her,” he recalled.
“Linda thought it was too much, but I brushed off her concerns, thinking she was just being overly cautious.”
Nowadays, Sarah has since gone away to college, and she is still doing well in school. So, for her summer break, he actually decided to surprise her with a paid trip to Italy.
But, while his daughter was obviously ecstatic, his wife was furious with him. Linda even sat him down and claimed that Sarah was becoming spoiled since he kept giving their daughter anything she wanted.
“In addition to the car and the trip, I also give Sarah an $8,000 allowance every month. Linda believes we should start cutting back and let Sarah learn the value of money and hard work,” he explained.
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However, while he understands where his wife is coming from, he also believes that Sarah deserves all of these nice things.
He thinks that she’s doing great in college and should get to enjoy her life and experiences that he never got to have when he was her age.
Linda, on the other hand, argued that they were setting their daughter up for failure by always giving in to whatever Sarah wanted.
“She thinks Sarah is becoming entitled and expects everything to be handed to her,” he said.
This has caused him and his wife to have multiple “heated discussions” about their daughter, too, and Linda really thinks that Sarah needs to learn to “stand on her own two feet.”
“But I worry that cutting her off now would be too hard. I don’t want to create a rift between us and our daughter, but I also don’t want to cause a strain in my marriage,” he vented.
So, he’s now been left wondering if ignoring his wife’s concerns and continuing to spoil his daughter would really be the wrong thing to do.
Do you agree that he’s going overboard by giving so much to a 20-year-old? Do you think he is setting his daughter up to fail or not? Should he start setting more boundaries with his daughter?
You can read the original post on Reddit here.
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