Her Husband Wants To Move Away For Better Work Opportunities, But She’s Refusing To Leave Her Family And Told Her Husband That He Isn’t Her Whole Life
This 28-year-old woman is an only child but still believes that she’s always been very family-oriented. Right now, everyone in her family– including extended family members– lives close by. At most, her loved ones are only an hour away.
So, she always intended to continue living near her parents and other family members.
And when she began dating her husband about eight years ago, she made sure to tell him this, too. She made it clear that she planned to live close to her family for the rest of her life.
“He agreed to it,” she recalled, “He moved away from his family– an eight-hour drive– to live with me near mine.”
But she and her husband are now three years into their marriage, and he recently admitted that he now wants to move away.
He’s specifically interested in relocating to a city that offers better opportunities for work. She understands his reasoning, too, since there aren’t a ton of opportunities where they currently live.
“But the cost of living is pretty low, too. And since we don’t plan to have children, our salaries are more than sufficient for a good life,” she explained.
That’s why she ultimately tried to remind her husband of the promise he made back when they first started dating. However, he just became angry and accused her of prioritizing her family over their marriage.
Still, she pointed out how her husband knew what he was signing up for a long time ago. After all, she wants to be close to her family, and it’s not like she can just ask everyone to relocate. She simply doesn’t want to sacrifice her relationships with her loved ones.
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Regardless, her husband claimed that since he is her partner, she should be prioritizing him above anything and anyone else.
She had a different opinion on that, though, and came clean about not thinking that her husband is “her life.”
“I told him that as much as I love him, he is one among many people I love. He is a part of my life, not my whole life. I can’t leave my family and life here,” she revealed.
Well, that only made her husband more upset, and he actually just abandoned their conversation.
Since she admitted how she really felt, her husband has also been refusing to talk to her.
That’s why she decided to confide in one of her friends, but even they agreed with her husband and claimed that she was a jerk for saying that.
So now, with tensions still high in her home, she can’t help but wonder if telling her husband that he “isn’t her life” was really the wrong way to handle this situation.
Can you understand why she doesn’t want to move away from her family? At the same time, hasn’t her husband already made sacrifices for her by moving away from his own family to make her happy? Is marriage about compromise, or should she continue to get what she wants? How do you think she should handle this?
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