My in-laws demand I pay for everything since my mum died and left me money

"My MIL joked about my “inheritance pocket” so I got up and left the restaurant." 

A woman who inherited a “good amount” of money when her beloved mum passed away has proved why money doesn’t always buy happiness.

The 32-year-old explained that her husband now expects her to pay for everything, despite the fact her mum only died recently and she has the money in a separate account until she decides what she wants to do with it.

“He is constantly bringing it up and making countless suggestions about how I should spend it,” she explained in her viral Reddit post.

“For NYE, my husband and I met up with family at a restaurant. It was going fine until I found out I was expected to pay for everyone at the table.

“My husband’s mum joked about paying out of my “inheritance pocket”.

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"My husband said I was pathetic for not paying" 

The woman explained that the insensitive comment made her “livid” but she did her best not to react. Instead, she decided to take a stand.

“I silently paid for my own food and drinks, then got up and made me way out of the restaurant,” she explained.

“They were shouting after me like a crowd trying to get me to come back but I drove home.

“My husband got back at 3am yelling at me saying I was pathetic to get up and walk out on him and his family after they relied on me to pay for their food.”

Worse yet, he accused her of doing it to get back at his family for “not being able to help my mum when she was sick”.

"Their self-entitlement is mind-boggling" 

The woman said her husband is now mad at her for causing a rift with her in-laws when it “wouldn’t have hurt” for her to pay for the celebratory dinner.

So she turned to the online forum to see what people thought – and thousands who responded were on her side.

“I’d tell your husband you’d much rather your mother around than the money but him and his family trying to blind side you into spending it on them is disgusting. That you plan on taking your time to decide what you want to do with that money and don’t want anything like this to occur again," one person suggested.

"The sheer ENTITLEMENT is mind boggling. The fact you received it from the loss of mum after a long illness makes it even more disgusting of the husband/family," another commented.

Meanwhile another person said: "It is time to speak to a good lawyer and get that money into some type of trust that he cannot touch in the event of divorce. His behaviour is not healthy or supportive and it seems like he and his family seem entitled to your inheritance.”

Originally published as My in-laws demand I pay for everything since my mum died and left me money