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Your recent post states: "paying us back" was my husband's idea. "paying us back over time" was my parent's idea, as they could not at once. that they shouldn't be paying us back at ALL - this is the main point of contention between me and my husband. I DON'T WANT THEM TO. he does.
I think I speak for everyone on this board when I say therein lies the problem. As defensive as you feel about him now that he's under attack, his demand that your parents "pay you back" for YOUR wedding, is outrageous. Your buying into this notion AT ALL even just to have to defend your parents' putative poor financial decisions in the past, any attempt to "explain" their inability to pay you back, etc. is your contribution to the problem. Your parents financial decisions don't need defending-- they're not even his concern, in other words: None of His Business. Take a stand and tell him to leave your parents out of it and refuse to be bullied.
