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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm sorry OP. This is a hard one.

Does your wife work and contribute meaningfully to HH income?  What is she spending excessively on? (clothes, house, vacations, etc?)

Before leaping to divorce and breaking up your kids' home, what have you done to rein this in?[/quote]

She does work but I make the bulk of our income.

We have 3.5 year old twins. We both want what’s best for their future but my wife goes overboard.

Excessive spending

- Most expensive daycare 
- Most expensive preschool 
- An expensive I caved and bought 
- A new car 
- expensive activities for the kids 
- A tutor for the kids ( no joke)
- wasting hundreds each shopping trip 
- always purchases random crap she sees online

This is just the tip of the iceberg. She didn’t use to be this way. Motherhood has made her very competitive. [/quote]

Sounds like you need to agree on a budget for your kids.  She's not spending on herself much with these expenses.

DH and I had this conversation around education - I wanted the BEST.  He wanted more financial freedom.  We thought long and hard about the long and short term views and what was available to us publicly.  We also factored in the cost of moving and what that would look like.  We landed on something we both agreed was the best.  Luckily, when it comes to our kids both our heads and hearts are in the same place.  Painting our differences to each other through conversations was super helpful.  [/quote]

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