When my son started University it wasn't very far away from our house so me and my wife agreed to let our son to stay at our house while he's still in uni.

Before I start dotting down my story, let me tell you something... money is definitely not an obstacle in our household, we have way more than enough, but the disproportion of each family member's money is huge.

For example: last week my son went to a place to eat, spent roughly $7 and paid via his debit card. When he came back home, my wife had a go at him for spending $7 on a meal...

I came back from work and she told me what happened... I said "I will talk to him about it." but when I went to his room I just told him "Don't worry about it."

When I came back to the kitchen she told me "Do you like my new perfume?" I told her it was nice and all.. and when I asked her how much she paid for it, she said $160.. that was when I was displeased. I closed the kitchen door and said "You just started boiling at [my son's name] for spending $7 on a meal whereas you spent $160 on your perfume, where's the fairness in that?" she got upset and went to the bathroom.

Two weeks ago I started giving my son money without my wife's knowledge. My son isn't the type of person to spend it on drugs or some other toxins, in-fact he uses the money as a mature adult and entertains himself with food or other things every now and then.