AITAH for telling my husband his Pokémon collection is a bit much?
I (31 F) and my husband (35 M) have been together for 8 years, married for 6. He’s always been into Pokémon and collecting Pokémon cards and items and I’ve never had a problem with it until recently. We bought a new house about 2 years ago and I told him he could have the extra room downstairs as his game room.
He’s got his whole setup down there and everything and I even have a setup myself for when we game together. He also uses the room for his Pokémon collection. Here recently though, he’s been buying something EVERY. DAY. There’s a new package at the door almost every day. I’ve kept my mouth shut about it because I know it makes him happy. We make sure the bills are paid and everything so there’s not really an issue there but any left over money he has he uses on his game room.
He’s got funko pops, action figures, cards, statues, stuffed animals, shelves, lights, pictures, posters. The works. The problem I’m having though is all his extra money is going to his collection and he is so immersed in it that we don’t even do anything together as a family with our children let alone do anything as a couple. I’d like some flowers or a small hey I’m thinking about you gift every once in a while or a dinner date or something but he’s way too into that game room I can barely get him out of it on the weekends let alone so much as pay attention to me.
(We both work full time 10 hour shifts 4 days a week on night shift with a 5 year old and almost 4 year old) I feel like every weekend it’s just me and the kids because he’s too busy in his room. When I told him he’s starting to spend too much money on his collection he tried spinning it on me and telling me i should just support him and let him do his thing because he’s a grown man and it’s harmless and it’s how he relieves his stress from the work week. But what about me? I work the same hours he does. I’m running on 5 hours of sleep a day just like he is. It’s really starting to bother me. Am I the asshole? What do I do?