I don't know if this is the right group to put this in, I'm in a real quandary and I really don't know how to tackle the issue and I'm hoping that someone out there reading this may be able to offer some advice?
DD who is 19 had some money in a drawer on Wednesday evening, yesterday evening some of the money (£25 ) was gone, there were 4 people in the house at different stages yesterday, myself before and after work, DD until the afternoon, DD's best friend who had stayed over and DH who is currently not working so was in the house all day until 7 when he went to visit a friend.
This is not the first time this has happened where money left out has disappeared and I suspected DH before although I hated myself for doing so, however money just doesn't disappear into thin air so someone has taken it and DD believes it was DH, as her best friend was always with her and she just doesn't believe her friend would take it.
I raised it with DH by text last night when he was still out at his friends and DD had realised the money had gone, and he was angry that once again money had gone missing, I didn't accuse him in the text message just simply stated that the money was no longer there.
I can't get the image of DD's face out of my head when she came to the conclusion that her own Dad has possibly stolen from her.
We need to discuss this further today at some point and I just don't know how to tackle it, for context DH has been out of work for some time which means he has no money of his own and last month when I gave him my debit card to get something from the shop, he used it to buy cigarettes without telling me, I only realised when I was looking at my bank statement online and saw a transaction I didn't recognise, I asked him about it and he admitted what he had done and apologised, I'm really anti smoking and hate that he smokes, I refuse to buy them or give him the money for them. So in light of that I do wonder if he saw the money in the drawer yesterday and took it for whatever reason?
He is not a horrible man and of course it could be DD best friend who took it, I just don't know, and I don't know how to best deal with this.