My husband paid off his mother’s $18,000 debt while telling me we couldn’t afford to have a second child. Then I discovered what he’d done. My husband and I had been trying to save money for almost two years. We stopped eating out. I picked up extra shifts. Whenever I asked about having another baby, he reminded me how expensive everything had become. I understood. Our first child was only four, and I didn’t want us struggling either. Then one evening, I was checking our joint account when I noticed a transfer of $18,000. I thought it was a mistake until I found out he’d used the money to pay off his mother’s debt. I was furious. When I confronted him, he didn’t deny it. His mother had been drowning in debt after a medical emergency. She’d been losing sleep, receiving threatening calls from creditors, and hiding the situation from the rest of the family. He said he couldn’t watch the woman who raised him lose everything when he had the means to help her. I asked him one question.