Welcome to our slash Am I the Butthole, where OP's husband wants to give away her lottery jackpot

winnings. Am I the Butthole for not wanting to split my jackpot win with my husband's friend?

I'm a 30 year old woman. I played the lottery for the first time last year when everyone was

talking about the Powerball jackpot. Since then, I've played casually, only spending a few dollars a

week. I occasionally won a few bucks, but never really expected to win anything big. But it was

nice to dream because I had a ton of debt and I've been struggling a lot. Fast forward to a few

months ago. I checked the winning numbers one night against my ticket and it matched my numbers perfectly.

Initially, I didn't believe it and I thought there had to be a mistake so I told my husband and

we checked it like a dozen times and I was right. We won! This is life-changing multi-generational FU

money. We instantly agreed to keep the news to ourselves and wait a few months before we did

anything. The past few months have been an incredible high filled with disbelief and though it's

been difficult, we've managed not to make any large purchases or change our lifestyle. We fantasized

about what to do with our money, but the time to claim is drawing near so we've begun having

more practical discussions about how to claim it and what to do with it. While discussing,

my husband Adam brought up that he thinks it'll be a good idea to split the money with his

best friend slash business partner Tim. Tim and Adam have been friends since they were in middle

school and have done everything together ever since. Together, they've started businesses,

worked together, invested money, moved to the same town and have often dreamed about our

families making it big together. Since we've taken risks together and are so close, Adam feels

that it's fair to give them one third of the cash prize so that one, we're not going on this journey

of a new life alone and two, it's suspicious to make all this money suddenly and it's more

easily explained if Tim makes the money as well since we do everything together. However, I feel

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