Is My Husband Financially Abusing Me?
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🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | brought to you by the every dollar app start budgeting for free today i'm trying to find out if |
| 0:08.0 | the way my husband is treating me financially is considered abusive or is it if it's acceptable |
| 0:12.8 | and what i should do um tell us more um i'm i'm in my mids, so is he, and we have six kids, and I have been financially dependent on him for 20 years, well, more than that, our entire marriage. |
| 0:30.3 | I don't work, and I've never worked. |
| 0:33.3 | Last year, he artificially reduced the amount of money in our family income so that it was below |
| 0:41.5 | how much we needed to have just sufficient funds. |
| 0:46.4 | And so over the course of the year, we basically blew through all of the extra savings |
| 0:50.1 | that were in that account. |
| 0:52.7 | And then towards the end of the year, there were some medical problems with our family, |
| 0:56.6 | and we really tipped the budget over the top. |
| 1:00.0 | We did not go into debt because he's putting aside money somewhere else also. |
| 1:06.4 | Where do you know? |
| 1:08.2 | He's putting it into savings accounts. |
| 1:10.2 | I used to be able to see them, but I can't see them anymore because he hid them. |
| 1:14.8 | He, like, I don't, because I'm dependent and I'm not really that into the finances stuff, |
| 1:20.3 | like I could see them through a budgeting app, but now I can't. |
| 1:24.5 | So yes. |
| 1:25.2 | And that was all intentional. |
| 1:26.4 | Yes. |
| 1:31.4 | And he's doing this to punish you? Yes. So he sent me a text saying that since I wasn't ready to talk to him, he just went ahead and made decisions himself. And so |
| 1:37.0 | he cut me off from the family credit card, which was in his name, right? It was a card for him. And he |
| 1:43.0 | told me that he had reduced the amount in our |
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