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Now today's first story comes from practical drama

554-9 from the M. I the asshole here subreddit and says, I the asshole for telling my husband his

fragile masculinity is costing us money. And the husband responds. Back in late 2021, my husband Craig, male 41, and I female 44 welcomed our fourth child into the world.

As a result, we needed to upgrade one of our cars to something larger.

We decided to trade in my super reliable Toyota RAV4, but something bigger since I was the

one who drove the kids around most often.

I was open and ready to embrace minivan life and was planning to buy something reliable

and safe, like a Honda or Kia.

But Craig had his heart on an SUV.

In his mind, minivans were too feminine. So against my better

judgment, we ended up purchasing a used 2018 Mercedes GLS 450, mainly due to his insistence.

He argued that this car would offer similar space to the Kia slash Honda minivans I wanted, but with added luxury. Since it was

priced like a loaded Honda van, we went ahead with it. After two years, I can safely say, we made

the wrong choice. What the car does have good passenger space. It doesn't seem to have as much

cargo room as those minivans.

The reliability has been junk. The car has had eight recalls during our ownership. Even when

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