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51-59,
anonymous
writes:I've become concerned about my husband lately, he seems to have taken a rather different attitude to life lately, and thinks about freeloading to get anything or everything.No-one can freeload for everything anyway, can they?He won't say why he thinks it's good, but I'm worried about the situation...What would you do in my situation? Reply to this Question
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reader, anonymous, writes (29 July 2009): I think your husband has discovered he has no ready cash. He's broke. Cheap is in and so is frugality.Your husband may burn bridges because people will notice immediately they are being used. Some others who are not about to give away anything of value may deny him services.I would start by telling him to stop using people.Since you are aware of this wait until after he has committed the transgression and then try to patch up the relationship when you notice the abused not interacting any more with your family. Explain that your partner has suddenly changed and to not be as quick to fall for your husband's ploys at free stuff/services.I think the above would be how I would handle it. My cousin tried to get me to fix his laptops for free even though when he arrived for a family get together from far away he told me to charge him for my time. After I did he called me the next day with a problem but volunteered that the previous techy had been a friend who fixed his computers for free but had now moved 200 miles. It took me over 9 hours to diagnose the two laptops and not being able to participate in part of the events at the get-together.
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