My husband’s car is a money pit and will be the downfall of our relationship
TLDR: my husband is throwing away thousands on his 20 year old car that constantly breaks down and getting rid of our new, reliable car because it’s “unaffordable”.
My husband and I have been together for 6 years, married for over a year. My husband has a 2006 Infiniti G35. He loves this car more than me, more than his parents, more than life itself. I’m unsure of why but I think it might be because he’s had it since he was 17?
I’m not dogging on him for loving cars—I get it but this car breaks down constantly. It’s been this way ever since I met him. Every other month it is in the shop having to have major work done on it. It’s had an entire engine replaced. He throws away thousands of dollars on this car and whenever I bring up that he should consider selling it because it’s hurting his wallet, he tells me that I don’t know what I’m talking about because I don’t know anything about cars and that they’re supposed to have work done on them (which I know, but should they have to constantly be in the shop?).
Anyways, I gave birth to our daughter a few months ago and he decided we needed a bigger car so she’d be safer in her car seat. And during snowy months. He took out a loan on a new Hyundai and when I asked him if he’d be able to sell his other car so paying off the loan would be more affordable, he said he’d be keeping both cars but wants me to sell mine (my car is a 2017 Honda that has not broken down on me since having it, and while it’s small I would consider it more reliable than his Infiniti). I fought with him over this and so far, I have stood my ground on selling my car.
Well today, he dropped the bomb on me that he wants to get rid of the brand new car because paying off the loan is too expensive for him. He’s says this to me as we’re dropping off his Infiniti at an auto body shop to get fixed up…again.
I’m fucking livid. I don’t even know what to say. I don’t understand why he’d give the world for this car that is so unreliable, is constantly breaking down. I can’t understand him at all. I feel insane.