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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tell her no and mean it. Your the man of the house, act like it. Take away her credit cards / debit card. Give her only a tiny cash allowance each week. If you want it to stop you have to take action.[/quote]

If the debit card is from a joint account, calculate how much you’ve contributed to that and withdraw the amount to place In another account only controlled by you. [/quote]

If they get divorced, their assets will be split 50/50 and OP may need to pay alimony if he's the higher earner.  All this aggressive, contemptuous stuff is going to backfire on OP.  I agree if the visits are $100-150 multiple times a month and it's causing financial hardship (though I do wonder if OP is exaggerating--those more exaggerated details emerged as people criticized him to bolster his case) they need to sit down and figure out a workable solution. 
Pretending he has any power to "cut her off" financially is absurd: their assets-- regardless of who earns them and where they are housed-- are joint in a marriage unless a portion are inherited and not intermingled.  These suggestions are ways to escalate the problem.[/quote]

Wrong is wrong though. OP's wife is not thinking about the family but herself when she's drowning for debt. I know it's the law but why OP should be punished again during the divorce is he is the higher earner? To me it looks like the lower earning spouse and most of them are women are holding their husbands hostage because of alimony and all the other divorce threats. How can you expect harmony in the marriage? [/quote]

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