Woman Says Father-in-Law Is Obsessed With Their Finances, Then She Shares Their Text Exchange

A Reddit post in r/inlaws about a father-in-law contacting his son’s manager drew support and debate. The woman, posting as u/autisticvampirewife, shared a text exchange between her husband and his father. Her husband asked his father to stop monitoring his work activity. The post had 494 upvotes and 138 comments, at the time of publication. The post included a screenshot of a text exchange between the husband and the father. “Please stop stalking my work activity dad,” he wrote. He also asked his father to stop calling his manager for job updates. His father replied, “Worry about yourself not me,” before asking, “Who’s being abusive now?” The Reddit user said her father-in-law remained fixated on the couple’s finances. She wrote that the couple had stopped sharing financial information with him, which she believed frustrated him. According to her post, her father-in-law believed her husband was lying about being employed.

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