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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's the answer: DH is just being reasonable about buying your parents a car. You, as a couple, are being very generous in providing your parents with housing as well as additional financial support for extras. Now you're going to buy them a car. That's awesome. $30k is totally reasonable and generous, and you yourself state they'd be happy with that. So buy them that, and feel tremendously lucky that a) you do so well financially and b) you and DH are on the same page about helping your parents.

I'd be irritated that my DH is irritated about me treating friends, but I wouldn't take it personally I guess, since he is the same way with his own family. It just sounds like that's the way he thinks about money.

It also sounds like you'd have more confidence and feel more powerful if you earned income too. I think it's a question of whether that's important enough to you to give up the SAH lifestyle. For me, it would not be, I don't think.[/quote]

+1  OP your DH is very generous to cover all of his in laws' expenses the way he does.  Your parents seem to get that, and are grateful for the assist but you want to flex and send your parents around town in a luxury vehicle just so that . . . why?  Why do you think they should get a $50k car?  What would that mean about you or your relationship that a $30k car does not?  Is it a test to prove that you can spend as you please, regardless of reason or value?  Is it posturing so your parents realize *just* how rich you guys are?  What's the end game?[/quote]

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