Am I in the wrong for going all in on a meme-coin after fighting with my wife over it?

Hey everyone,

So here’s the deal. I’ve been in crypto since 2017, but never super serious, maybe $2k–$3k to start, mostly just learning. My wife and I both work in branding and advertising, so we’re used to seeing hype cycles, whether in crypto or anywhere else. I remember when Doge went parabolic in 2020/21, and then Shiba Inu came after it. From my profession, I know that the “second time” is usually when people FOMO in (like big brands profit from one another CocaCola vs Pepsi, McDonald’s vs. Burger King same as Doge vs. Shiba). When I saw Shiba, my wife told me to go all in, but I obviously didn’t. I told my friends, and I only put in like $100 but made $500 (lol), and one of my friends turned $3k into $90k! It was unbelievable at the time.

Together with my wife, we’ve also been early in BONK, PEPE, and even recently in SPX when it was around 10 cents (I think that’s still pretty early). We made some money but usually got out pretty quickly (like a few weeks to a month) so I didn’t always catch the biggest runs, even though my wife constantly told me not to rush… and 90% of the time she was right. Nothing big happened, and no big deal.

Anyway, over the years we made around $50k total from memecoins, which we cashed out most of, little by little. Lately, I had like $12k left in a crypto wallet, and we were looking for the next opportunity. After taking a break from crypto for almost a year, I started reading online and got the feeling that 2025 might be a huge meme coin super cycle. So together with my wife, we started searching for something new, some low-cap gem with a strong community. We didn’t want to rush. We looked at Apu, Bert, LockIn, UsaCoin, and a bunch of other low-caps.

Days went by, and then we stumbled on a coin called Fartboy. At first, I thought it was kind of dumb—like the name itself didn’t even make me laugh. Felt super cringe. Coming from the branding world, I also didn’t like the logo or anything. But Fartboy, at the time, was the second-largest “Fart Meta” coin after FartCoin had pumped, and it was so new to the market it kinda felt like Doge vs. Shiba all over again. My wife kept pushing me to invest and she kept saying this was it. But I didn’t invest at all. Over some days, she continued to push me, and tt got kind of annoying, honestly. But still we did not invest at all.

After a week of her pushing and trying to convince me, the coin went up like 1500% in just one week, and their Discord was going nuts. I felt bad and kinda jealous that I didn’t invest. After that, my wife kept saying over and over again (every day, like 100 times a day) “I told you!”, “You don’t listen to me!”, “We could’ve made a lot off this,” and stuff like that. It started to really piss me off. We actually got into a fight about it and said some pretty bad things to each other. She even cried. I made her cry over a memecoin! I felt horrible. Really, really horrible. Later that day, I obviously apologized with my heart on the table, and we moved on. But there was still this weird tension between us when we tried to talk about crypto, so we didn’t talk about what to invest in for a few months after that.

Fast forward a few months: My wife brings up Fartboy (out of nowhere) and says, “Hey, since it’s down, let’s put all our leftover crypto money into Fartboy.” Even though we both know it’s not smart to go all in on one coin, I listened to her, (considering what had happened) and put in around $12k a few days ago, basically all the crypto money we had left.

Okay, to be honest, fter hanging out in their Discord, the people in there are super organized. They’ve literally made tattoos of this coin in their boddy, they’ve done charity donations, they’ve helped people who got hacked and lost money (some got thousands of dollars back with organized donations), and stuff like that. I also learned that CoinsKid, the crypto YouTuber, did a community takeover of Fartboy, and that’s why it pumped earlier. He apparently didn’t sell anything, his wallet went to around $10 million, and now it’s back to about $1 million, but he’s still holding and says it could go to $4. Aome other influencers are also involved and apparently, even Hank from Breaking Bad (my fav TV SHOW) is involved somehow?!

But even with all that, I’m trying now to convince my wife to sell at least half so we can diversify the portfolio. Even though she knows going all in isn’t smart, she still says, “Do what you want.” But she’s convinced it’s going to be like before, with the other coins, and that I just have to have patience. For context, financially, we’re in a good place even if we lost all this money, but $12k isn’t a small amount. I want to play it safe, even though she says, “If it happens, let it happen big, and if not, we forget about it.”

I genuinely want to know:

Am I in the wrong for doing this? Is it totally crazy to trust a community like this? Should we diversify? My wife is super convinced this is it, and honestly, I’m scared we might be wrong and I want to play it safe.

I’d really appreciate some advice.