For background - DH and I are both very overweight, we probably need to lose around 5 stone each. Recently, we have been doing a lot of thinking and talking about the lifestyle changes we should be making.
DH wants to buy a cross trainer to help him exercise. I'm opposed to this for several reasons:
The one he wants costs over £2000 (DH claims this is worth it if it helps us lose the weight);
We have nowhere we can easily fit this cross trainer;
I don't believe he'll use it enough to justify £2k;
Things are going badly at my work at the minute, my colleagues and I all think redundancies are looming, and £2k is a significant chunk of my annual salary.
We have previously owned a rowing machine and a (cheaper) cross trainer that we got rid of when we moved house because we didn't use them. We also currently have a stationary bicycle that DH hasn't used once since he set it up 3 months ago.
I have said to DH that if he actually uses the stationary bike regularly for a few months, then I'll believe that there's a good chance he'll regularly use a cross trainer, and we can reconsider getting a cross trainer, although I'd still want it to be cheaper than the one he's talking about.
DH says that I am being negative and undermining his (as yet unstarted) plans to lose weight.
AIBU?