30/08/2026
AITAH for refusing to pay extra to renovate MY apartment when my fiancé won’t contribute?
I (29F) have been with my fiancé (31M) for 4,5 years. We got engaged 3 weeks ago.
For the past 4 years we’ve been living in my sisters apartment while she’s away. I own a 3 bedroom apartment that I’ve been renting out and the plan was that once we got engaged and maybe pregnant we would renovate it and move there before being married.
The tenants recently moved out, a week ago and now we are starting renovations.
Here’s the issue: my fiancé told me he doesn’t want to contribute financially to the renovations because his name isn’t on the deed. I understood that and didn’t push. Instead my parents offered to help financially (they were already planning to gift us furniture and appliances, witch is tradition here)
We set a renovation budget of 15.000. To stay within budget, I suggested we keep the existing floor tiles, they’re good quality just a little outdated.
No my fiancé is insisting we replace the tiles anyway, which would increase the cost by 1/3 give or take… but he’s still not contributing to the renovation budget.
We’ve also been arguing because he says I don’t speak up enough in front of contractors and my parents. I tend to take time to think and prefer to discuss decisions privately with him first, but he says I leave him hanging and make him look bad.
I feel like I’m already compromising by handling the renovation costs with my family, and now I’m bing pushed to spend even more money for something unnecessary.
He feels...