AITA for not wanting to buy another car?
I (29 M) and my wife (29F) are currently living across the country from each other due to my job (short term assignment lasting about 1.5 years). For several reasons, my wife and our 2 kids (4 and 2) did not move with me, but are planning to split their time between our hometown and where I am living now.
For some context, my car has been on the fritz, but usually worked and was ok to drive locally. My company paid for it to be moved as part of my relocation, and when I arrived, I bought a new car and kept the old one so that my wife would have something to drive when she was down here.
However, in the past month, my old car has been increasingly unreliable is now undriveable. My wife now has nothing to drive and is very upset about being stuck in the house while I’m at work when she is here. She wants me to scrap the old car and buy her another car that she can drive around town. I told her it’s ridiculous and that she could always drop me off at work and then pick me up in the evening if she wants to go somewhere. She accused me of trapping her in the house and said it’s not realistic for us to share a car bc it would mean she and the kids would be in the car for an hour in the morning and an hour at night. I understand that, but I told her I don’t really want to spend $5k on another car for her to drive, and rental cars are way too expensive.
My wife is now saying that she cannot come down to see me bc it will be “bad for her mental health” to be stuck in the house all the time. I don’t think it’s fair for her to go back on her word of splitting her time between home and here, bc I will not be able to see my kids. I talked to my dad about it, and he told me t just buy the car and sell it before I move back, but I think that’s kind of ridiculous.