What To Give Wife...

mspig

So who gets the child benefit, child tax credits or working tax credits, do you get those as well as your wage?

As far as £10.00 goes i spent more than that today on myself for a change in Boots.

I think to give your wife pocket money is really putting her down, she has a right to a life as well.

What luxuries do you buy for yourself(be honest) do you smoke, drink(home or the pub), how many times a week do you go out to the pub etc, what about eating out? these are all luxuries and they cost a lot more than £10.00.

So does your wife when at home not clean the house, hoover, make the beds, wash the clothes? Do you do the food shopping or does she get money to do this aswell, as long as its spent on the food.

Sorry but i think you are completely wrong in what you are doing and i wouldn't be surprised if she goes off with someone else who offers her a decent living, and allows her to be incontrol of her life as this is what it seems like to me you like the control you have over her not letting her do anything for herself and not giving her enough to do anything with you wouldn't like.

Mojisola

Look at Britguy's posts - he's just winding everybody up.

briona

Has nobody considered that maybe after 13 years of staying at home with 'the kid', the OP's wife might find it hard to get a job? Confidence issues aside, despite the number of no-qualifications-needed low paid jobs out there, many still expect you to have some experience, which, if you've stayed at home for years, you just wouldn't have...

omen666

Unbelievable. This forum is for advice and in no time at all Britguy has been berated by regular forum users who are bitter about their own experiences. No doubt due to this he is now responding back in kind

Accused of being a troll when he comes on here making his first post ASKING FOR ADVICE, no wonder some dont stay around for long.

In his world this has been acceptable for him to give her a tenner a week, If she was bothered about it should would have asked for more but obviously hasn't. He obviously thinks he is out of touch and maybe not giving enough thus the post for advice on what others think, The bitter comments of she should get half or I would divorce you help no-one including the OP. I see 10's of posts on here these days where someone posts for help and they get berated rahter than the advice requested, you should all be ashamed of yourselves, you found this forum in the beginning as others helped you, try and do the same !!!!!!! back.

@ Britguy, I would ask her what she thinks is a reasonable amount and compromise from there. Money is tight in most households these days that it is hard to BST secure things these days.

pinksleepybear

omen666 wrote: »

Unbelievable. This forum is for advice and in no time at all Britguy has been berated by regular forum users who are bitter about their own experiences. No doubt due to this he is now responding back in kind

Accused of being a troll when he comes on here making his first post ASKING FOR ADVICE, no wonder some dont stay around for long.

Omen666, if you look at Britguy's previous posts, they are all very agressive....someone was asking about returning a chair that broke, Britguy says they must be too fat....someone else was asking for advice about dealing with their in-laws, Britguy says the inlaws don't want to be seen with someone so ugly.

I really believe this guy is a troll.

plob

LillyJ wrote: »

I suspect troll but oh well.

I cannot believe that any husband would give their wife "spending money"!

i have to agree with you on that one :T

abarthman

I'm shocked at some of the nasty comments aimed at Britguy.

He asked for advice and many of you (all women, I presume) piled right in with personal attacks.

Who are you to dictate what a working man should give his wife for treats. Remember it's treats we are talking about here. He already takes care of the other household expenditure. I think it should be treat enough for her to sit watching whatever passes for daytime TV all day, whilst Britguy slaves away at work.

Many wives never get see a penny from their husbands and have to rifle their pockets for spare change to meet the cost of household essentials whilst they sleep off a pay-day drinking session. And they still don't complain.

Some of you women really don't know you're born!

omen666

pinksleepybear wrote: »

Omen666, if you look at Britguy's previous posts, they are all very agressive....someone was asking about returning a chair that broke, Britguy says they must be too fat....someone else was asking for advice about dealing with their in-laws, Britguy says the inlaws don't want to be seen with someone so ugly.

I really believe this guy is a troll.

I see what you are saying but I still think that someone new to a forum is jumped on then they are not going to give the forum the respect it desrves. I know if I was berated then I would feel inclined to spam and abuse other posters just out of spite. Not ideal I know but if it where happen to me I would think !!!!!! and sod it.

Cornishpixie_2

britguy wrote: »

nah I earn atleast 1.5x national average. but why should i give her my hard earned cash.
it's not like she keeps the house sterile. she also doesn't do the cooking.

:rotfl: :rotfl: Didn't you both sign contracts on roles within the marriage and a pre- nuptual agreement then?:rolleyes:

Bitsy_Beans

CB1979 wrote: »

WOOOOAAAAAAHHHHHHHH THERE Betty!!!!

isn't MSE the official Women's Liberation/Lezzers appreciation site, never known a site to be full of such man hate as this one, with the occassional decent bargain chucked in for good measure.

it's obvious this is one man's plight that is felt up & down the country day in day out by millions of men and will always be there until civilisation ceases to exist.

also for all you mum's who think looking after a child is a full-time job, i think not!
looking after your own child should be a pleasure, not a chore, so don't come out with that rubbish.

perhaps if more men decided to take the easy option out and bum around all day like the millions of housewives/stay at home mum's (who allegedly "do the house" too, big whoopie doo for you!), then perhaps they could instill some discipline in the children and we wouldn't have this chav culture that is ever present in today's society.

so to all you women, thanks for making the elderly scared of going out at night, you should all be ashamed for helping to bring this country to it's knees (quite rightly where you all belong!)

don't hate the player ladies, hate the game!

Bitter are we?
You sound as much as a wind up merchant as britguy.

And sorry I've been on enough forums to see britguy is nothing more than a troll - regardless to how he supposedly asks for advice. To portray his wife as he did as someone who has to ask for money as he controls everything was hardly going to have a measured reaction.
He may as well have said he chains her to the kitchen sink. Quite frankly if she's such a lazy woman I wonder why he's still married to her?