AITA for telling my wife “that’s why you should get a job” after she told me people shop alot more than she does?

So my wife and I are in our late 30s, we've been married for 13 years and she's been a sahm that whole time other than doing a short grub hub gig for a few months. She made the decision of being a sahm because she "wanted to spend time with the kids and not miss anything" even though when dating she said she wanted to work, and I expressed wanting to be a dual-income household.

One child is mine biologically, the eldest is not. They are 14 and 11. Yesterday,my wife went to the mall shopping and when she came back she said "you should've seen all those people with alot of bags spending $800+ and here I was spending only $100, i felt poor" i told her "well if you feel poor maybe it's time for you to get a job" she went silent and walked away.

For reference, I make $130,000 at my job after-taxes and we live in a lcol city with modest expenses. I give her $1,000/mo in "fun money" and she feels it's not enough anymore. We have a separate fund for gifts the fun money is purely fun. This trip to the mall was just shopping for herself.

I could increase her allowance, but i think it's reasonable so i just throw the extra into investing, and she's always saying how we should invest less and spend more, but I disagree. She always shows me her friends on vacation and their wives shopping or what new car their husbands bought them, etc and I always say the same thing because most of those wives work jobs too and she doesn't so i feel it's not an apples to apples comparison.

AITA?

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