He Wants To Tell His Wife To Get A Job Because He Supported Her After She Was Fired From Three Different Positions, But Now That He Wants To Quit A Toxic Work Environment, She’s Telling Him Not To
This 56-year-old guy has been married to his wife, who is 66, for 26 years. And throughout their marriage, his wife was fired from three of her jobs– all because of “her mouth,” according to him.
Then, after she finally landed a fourth position, she was forced to leave that job, too, because his wife’s boss was abusive.
After that, she then decided to just take her Social Security for about two years.
“And I supported her the whole time and financially sustained us,” he recalled.
However, he recently retired from both the Civil Service and the USAF Reserve after spending 30 and 33 years in each, respectively. But while he is receiving retirement money from the Civil Service, he won’t receive his USAF Reserve retirement funds until he turns 60 years old.
So, even though he is receiving some disability pay from the VA, his current income doesn’t level up to what he earned previously.
That’s why he recently took a new job working for a local private airport.
“And while the pay is good, the workplace is toxic,” he revealed. “Also, my injuries leave me coming home in pain.”
Not to mention, his commute to work is pretty long now– about an hour each way– and all of these downsides have negatively impacted his performance at his new job. And this led to him getting suspended without pay recently.
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“However, there have been others who have had performance issues and had nothing done to them– hence the toxicity of the work environment,” he noted.
Regardless, at the end of his suspension, he will be forced to write a letter about how he plans to improve at work.
So, given the environment at his job, he decided that instead of handing in the letter, he would just submit a letter of resignation. Then, he plans to try and get a Social Security Supplement, which he is eligible for.
“It would be a struggle,” he admitted, “But we could make it.”
Once he filled his wife in on the situation, she was supportive of his choice, too. But then, the following day, she completely switched her opinion and started “hounding” him not to quit his job.
This seriously ticked him off, given her past work history. And now, he actually wants to call his wife out for basically being a hypocrite.
More specifically, he wants to tell his wife, “For most of our marriage, I have been responsible for providing money. I earned a retirement. Maybe you should get a job!”
But before he totally snaps and tells his wife off, he’s not sure if that would be the wrong thing to do.
Can you understand why he’s sick of being the breadwinner in their household? Would you also be hurt if your partner didn’t support you in leaving a toxic job after you supported them through countless lost positions? How should he handle this situation?
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