Periodically I 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, and I want her to have a wonderful relationship with all of her kin however there are particular people who put terrible ideas in her head.
I realized this early on when my wife told me that her mom was anxious if I was going to be a decent 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 huge expense headed my way! My mother-in-law is convinced these days that every one of us need to update our entire central HVAC system. She saw a segment on the news that suggested upgrading your forced air gas furnace and air conditioning device 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 venue where her air conditioning device 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 do not have the money for a full heating and cooling renovation. I barely even have the money to support our yearly energy bill at this point. I’m anxious about my mother-in-law’s influence on my wife, as well as the fact that my mother in law is trying to set her up with her heating and air conditioning worker.