AITA

<p>Earning money on investments gets easier when you have more money (I think). Understanding terms like S&amp;P, index fund, and futures seem overwhelming, but I think everyone knows to avoid crypto at this point. On a <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/yxcped/aita_for_telling_my_wife_that_her_investing/" target="_blank">popular Reddit thread</a> on the Am I The A**hole Subreddit, one rich couple did not get the memo on not trusting cryptocurrencies.</p><p>OP writes:</p><blockquote> <p>I (30m) come from a very poor family, but my wife is from a very rich one. She started the marriage with a net worth of 31 million dollars, and I started it with 300k dollars in student debt.</p> </blockquote><h2>All healthy marriages start with a lawyer.</h2><blockquote> <p>When we married, she gave me a prenup that separated her inheritance and got rid of my right to an 'elective share' if she died. In other words, I renounced my spousal right to a third of her separate property if she dies, making her sole beneficiaries her siblings or potential children. My debt and our incomes were also separated. We both got lawyers -- hers much more expensive than mine -- and notarized the prenup.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>OP believes in his bootstraps.</h2><blockquote> <p>None of this was a problem for me -- as a man, I&#39;m determined to pull myself up by the bootstraps, not rely on my wife&#39;s wealth for anything. The only beneficial part of the prenup for me was that our incomes were also now separate, and I earned a somewhat higher income than her, so I was okay with it overall.</p> </blockquote><h2>But you have an eight?</h2><blockquote> <p>Five years later, I still don&#39;t have a seventh of her current wealth, but her investments haven&#39;t been doing great this year.</p> </blockquote><h2>Monero sounds like a special at a 24-hour diner.</h2><blockquote> <p>As a sole crypto investor, things have been going very poorly for her. I had warned her not to do this, but she invests in a cryptocurrency called 'Monero,' which is down 47 percent this year. About 5 percent of her money was not in her wallet and was in the FTX exchange itself, which she lost after FTX went bankrupt recently. She now has a net worth of around 18 million dollars.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>I don&#39;t invest in crypto but rather in index funds. They&#39;ve also taken a hit this year but based on historical performance; they should go back up eventually&mdash;no such guarantee for cryptocurrencies, and certainly not for Monero.</p> </blockquote><h2>A very caring husband.</h2><blockquote> <p>I came home to her crying the other day after she found out that FTX had gone bankrupt. I told her, 'that&#39;s rough' -- not in a sarcastic way -- and I went upstairs to change.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>When I got back downstairs, she started b*tching and complaining, talking about how 'nonchalant' I was about her losing money. I pointed out that she&#39;s still wealthy despite her poor choices and that she could stop investing in crypto if she wanted to. Besides, she was the one that wanted to separate everything, so why did she want to make it my problem all of a sudden? AITA?</p> </blockquote><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/yxcped/comment/iwo2ysh/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=web2x&amp;context=3" target="_blank">Sufficient_Cat</a> says:</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>I don&rsquo;t understand why having separate finances would stop you from being able to comfort her. If my partner said they dropped $20 down a drainpipe, I&rsquo;d have more sympathy for him then you showed your wife, who lost a considerable amount of money. I get she has more, but it still sucks, and I don&rsquo;t see why you couldn&rsquo;t sympathize with her.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>She didn&rsquo;t ask you for money or to solve her problems; she just asked that you give a sh*t that your wife is having problems. YTA (You&#39;re the A**hole).</p> </blockquote><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/yxcped/comment/iwoggci/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=web2x&amp;context=3" target="_blank">JuliaX</a> says:</p><blockquote> <p>'Oh, honey, I&#39;m so sorry you only have $18 million.' Yeah, no language on Earth has a way to say that without sarcasm. NTA</p> </blockquote><p><a href="http://https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/yxcped/comment/iwols0z/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=web2x&amp;context=3" target="_blank">hexxcellent </a>says:</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>She doesn&#39;t want her husband to have ANYTHING-even if she <em><strong>dies</strong></em>? That&#39;s just so weird to me. She doesn&#39;t want the person she&#39;s supposed to love romantically more than anyone in her life to have anything.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>And OP is going along with it.... these people f*cking hate each other. These people despise each other yet are somehow married. Like... ESH (Everyone Sucks Here).</p> </blockquote><p>The internet seems divided on who&#39;s right but seems to agree that the most unlikable people are rich.</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

'Am I a jerk for not caring that my wife lost millions on crypto, she's still rich.'

Earning money on investments gets easier when you have more money (I think). Understanding terms like S&amp;P, index fund, and futures seem overwhelming, but I think everyone knows to avoid crypto at this point. On a popular Reddit thread on the Am I The A**hole Subreddit, one rich couple did not get the memo on not trusting cryptocurrencies.OP writes: I (30m) come from a very poor family, but my wife is from a very rich one. She started the marriage with a net worth of 31 million dollars, and I started it with 300k dollars in student debt. All healthy marriages start with a lawyer. When we married, she gave me a prenup that separated her inheritance and got rid of my right to an 'elective share' if she died. In other words, I renounced my spousal right to a third of her separate property if she dies, making her sole beneficiaries her siblings or potential children. My debt and our incomes were also separated. We both got lawyers -- hers much more expensive than mine -- and notarized the prenup. OP believes in his bootstraps. None of this was a problem for me -- as a man, I&#39;m determined to pull myself up by the bootstraps, not rely on my wife&#39;s wealth for anything. The only beneficial part of the prenup for me was that our incomes were also now separate, and I earned a somewhat higher income than her, so I was okay with it overall. But you have an eight? Five years later, I still don&#39;t have a seventh of her current wealth, but her investments haven&#39;t been doing great this year. Monero sounds like a special at a 24-hour diner. As a sole crypto investor, things have been going very poorly for her. I had warned her not to do this, but she invests in a cryptocurrency called 'Monero,' which is down 47 percent this year. About 5 percent of her money was not in her wallet and was in the FTX exchange itself, which she lost after FTX went bankrupt recently. She now has a net worth of around 18 million dollars.  I don&#39;t invest in crypto but rather in index funds. They&#39;ve also taken a hit this year but based on historical performance; they should go back up eventually&mdash;no such guarantee for cryptocurrencies, and certainly not for Monero. A very caring husband. I came home to her crying the other day after she found out that FTX had gone bankrupt. I told her, 'that&#39;s rough' -- not in a sarcastic way -- and I went upstairs to change.  When I got back downstairs, she started b*tching and complaining, talking about how 'nonchalant' I was about her losing money. I pointed out that she&#39;s still wealthy despite her poor choices and that she could stop investing in crypto if she wanted to. Besides, she was the one that wanted to separate everything, so why did she want to make it my problem all of a sudden? AITA? Sufficient_Cat says: I don&rsquo;t understand why having separate finances would stop you from being able to comfort her. If my partner said they dropped $20 down a drainpipe, I&rsquo;d have more sympathy for him then you showed your wife, who lost a considerable amount of money. I get she has more, but it still sucks, and I don&rsquo;t see why you couldn&rsquo;t sympathize with her.  She didn&rsquo;t ask you for money or to solve her problems; she just asked that you give a sh*t that your wife is having problems. YTA (You&#39;re the A**hole). JuliaX says: 'Oh, honey, I&#39;m so sorry you only have $18 million.' Yeah, no language on Earth has a way to say that without sarcasm. NTA hexxcellent says: She doesn&#39;t want her husband to have ANYTHING-even if she dies? That&#39;s just so weird to me. She doesn&#39;t want the person she&#39;s supposed to love romantically more than anyone in her life to have anything.  And OP is going along with it.... these people f*cking hate each other. These people despise each other yet are somehow married. Like... ESH (Everyone Sucks Here). The internet seems divided on who&#39;s right but seems to agree that the most unlikable people are rich.

Earning money on investments gets easier when you have more money (I think). Understanding terms like S&amp;P, index fund, and futures seem overwhelming, but I think everyone knows to avoid crypto at this point. On a popular Reddit thread...