Dear LFTP: grandmother, granddaughter, and a tantrum-throwing husband
- How should a wife respond when her husband throws tantrums over her spending her own money on their granddaughter?
A listener writes that she and her retired, financially comfortable husband each have spending money, but he goes nuts when she spends hers on their 10-year-old granddaughter — packing up and going to his camp for days. After 55 years of this behavior she asks for advice. The hosts and kids agree the husband is over the top, suggest compromise and direct conversation about what is really bothering him (possibly resentment toward the child's parents), and reject the 'secular answer' of asking whether she is better off with or without him: one disagreement, they say, is not a reason to divorce.
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Dear LFTP: the fiance who games until 5AM
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Dear LFTP: the basement musician whose wife never asks him to play
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Dear LFTP: wife mocks husband's bladder problem in public
- How should I respond when my wife mocks me and my bladder problem in public?
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