Sometimes I really wish that my wife would stop talking to her mother.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s not that I want her to be distant from her family for any nefarious reason.
I want her to have a good relationship with all of her kin but there are certain people who put bad ideas in her head. I realized this early on when my wife told me that her mom was concerned if I was going to be a good enough provider. Apparently, her mother’s major worry in life was having the ability to financially support a materialistic lifestyle. Everytime my wife and her mom talk on the phone there is some massive expense headed my way. My mother-in-law is convinced these days that we need to upgrade our entire central heating and cooling system. She saw a segment on the news that recommended upgrading your forced air furnace and air conditioning unit with more eco-friendly and energy-efficient air quality control systems. After that, my mother-in-law went out and installed radiant heated flooring throughout her house. She put evaporative cooling systems in the place where her air conditioning unit once sat. Then, she started telling my wife that we should do the same thing with our central HVAC system. The problem is, we have a very different financial situation than my mother-in-law. I don’t have the money for a full heating and cooling renovation. I barely even have the cash to support our monthly energy bill at this point. I’m worried about my mother-in-law’s influence on my wife… and the fact that my mother in law is trying to set her up with her HVAC technician.
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