{"id":19659,"date":"2024-09-26T12:22:48","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T12:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=19659"},"modified":"2025-02-18T18:28:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T18:28:30","slug":"money-isnt-everythingsometimes-money-can-cause-problems-in-relationships-especially-when-one-partner-has-a-lot-more-than-the-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=19659","title":{"rendered":"Money Isn\u2019t Everything; Sometimes>>>>>>>>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Money Isn\u2019t Everything<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/timelesslife.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/zs568.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-165336\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes, money can cause problems in relationships, especially when one partner has a lot more than the other. This happened to Darren soon after he got married.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Darren, a young man with much less money than his wife\u2019s family, found himself in an awkward and embarrassing situation that led to a big emotional reaction. Darren contacted us for advice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Here\u2019s what he shared:<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\" id=\"attachment_165339\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/timelesslife.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screenshot_17-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-165339\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">For illustrative purpose only. (Pixabays)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My wife\u2019s family is very wealthy while I\u2019m a regular employee who lives from paycheck to paycheck, so for our wedding, it was natural that her dad covered everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When we got on the plane for our honeymoon, she sat first class, and I realized my ticket was economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She shrugged and said, \u201cThis sucks baby, but Dad says he\u2019s not your money machine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furious, I left her on the plane. Hours later, I get the most horrific call from her dad .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I couldn\u2019t believe it when he said, \u201cI gave you a dream wedding and a dream honeymoon and didn\u2019t ask you for a dime. Is this how you treat my daughter?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added, \u201cMy daughter is used to a certain lifestyle, and I\u2019m going to keep giving her that, but you need to understand that I will not provide for you too!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His words only made me more furious. I told him that I cannot accept being humiliated just because I am not rich like them and hung up on him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My wife tried to convince me to go on the honeymoon on the next flight, but when I refused, she decided to come back home so we can talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Am I wrong to react this way? Yours, Darren<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Money Isn\u2019t Everything Sometimes, money can cause problems in relationships, especially when one partner has a lot more than the other. This happened to Darren soon after&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19659"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46795,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19659\/revisions\/46795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}