[petruccis_son]

Sounds like the world is going down ...

currently according to my cash flow, our finances are going up if we stick to our guns, which we are doing. But this throws a spanner in the works which will **** up our holiday plans for next April. So yeah, it aint happening!

If he can't afford the car anymore, he will have to give it back. Tell your wife that you certainly will be prepared to chip
in if people are ill, in hospital and other real urgent cases.

that’s a good point. And I certainly would help with genuine troubles like that

But this whole story of a car which can't be financed, I believe my wife wouldn't start a discussion with me about that.

Hope your wife will understand your principles and such money questions will not have any impact on your relationship together.

I’m sure she will. She knows what situation we are in right now so to be honest she shouldn’t have even thought about it herself. But I’m sure she’ll be on my side if its all laid out with the facts

Question:

Do you have financial plan together with your wife, do you set goals together and involve her in accomplishing these?

I’ve set a financial plan and I explain it to her so she can understand, one that’s possible to do with a bit of will power. Granted she is a girl and girls just sometimes have to have those new shoes, but in general she is good at knowing that money is not ‘here today gone tomorrow’ like so many thai’s think. I don’t know what she is waiting for in this family ‘talk’, because one way or another she has to know that we’re not paying, or even helping to pay for the truck. Its just my prediction that she’s gonna speak to her mum or brother on the phone, and then tell me what they have concluded should happen. She wont from her own mind tell them that we’re not paying for it, I know she’ll tell me and then let me make the decision (I just hope that she knows in her head already what that decision is! So there are no debates about it)

cheers for the reply ub