📝 AITAH for telling my husband no to fixing up his grandfathers motorcycle

By Most-Onion-4803 • Score: 0 • April 13, 2025 10:48 PM


So my husband and I are currently saving up. 1. To pay off debts 2. We want to try for a baby in the next year. We're both nearing 30 and have happily been together for 6 years.

We were all on board with our plan. Each put away a hundred or few each month and have a nice little rain day / baby fund / pay off some credit cards.

He has a old friend he hangs out with. Not the most put together guy but relatively nice and kind to me. But they meet up every couple of months and have way too many beers together and chat etc. This friend very single, between jobs, in the most polite way I can say, doesn't have his ducks in a row.

In addition, my husband has inherited his grandfathers bike that was sitting in there garage the last 25-30 years untouched. Please note, this bike has been in our garage the last 1-2 years. He's worked on it a few times but not often.

So on Friday night he goes over to this friend house and I'm getting an odd text and then call. His friend has another friend who is a motorcycle mechanic and is happy to take on the challenge of this bike. So obviously, I'm not happy. Our one and only goal right now is saving money. Now this friend seems to have convinced my husband of their plan and now he wants to start saving up for this as well. Again, prior to this Friday this was never mentioned in the various discussions we've had about family and financial planning.

Finances for the two of us aren't great. We are a few hundred short of paycheck to paycheck and he just finished his 2nd year of trade school which is a 8-10 week program and is potentially planning on going this next January for 3rd year.

So all in all, we are JUST getting by on the skin of our teeth. We are repaying our debts from school/ loans etc. while also attempting to save up for a baby.

Now my husband is mad at me, ignoring me, and "doesn't want to talk about it" after I told him no. And obviously not a no forever, but right here right now we have plans in place and a motorcycle repair is not on the list for most important.

So AITA?

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