u/Positive-Valuable-38

AITA for asking my wife to help me pay off the joint credit card

I’ll make this short and sweet for context I took on the financial responsibility as best as I could to help support my wife to go to school and encouraged her to quit her demanding job that was toxic to finish her schooling as fast as possible. During that time my hours were cut and budget was not stuck to firmly so debt occurred during this period and I experienced a cash flow problem trying to pay the credit card since we made all purchases on the card. Since all these purchases have been made for literally anything on either side it was all put on the citi credit card in our names. Recently she went back to work and is make the same amount nearly as me since we now both work at the same place with the same schedule. I feel bad not being able to pay this card off after telling her it was okay to go back to school to finish and trying to support but if I keep taking these bills on I’m never gonna pay that card off in less than a year at best and I won’t save well enough, I had asked her if she’s willing to help pay it off I need the help and she replied she doesn’t want to and feels as if she’s paying off a student loan. I understand I did say I’d help but now I’m the one in need of help she only has roughly 600 dollars of bills compared to her take home of 2.2k-2.6k a month she would like to just continue saving to replenish the money she pulled from her savings account to pay off her personal credit card. I’m only trying to understand if I’m in the wrong or being unreasonable to ask this obviously not all details are present but this is the jist of the situation any advice on how to handle this would be much appreciated.

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