She Wants To Divorce Her Lazy Husband Because He Works As Little As He Can, And She’s Sick Of Picking Up All The Slack To Try And Make Ends Meet
When this woman was just 19-years-old, she flew abroad to meet her now-husband in his home country.
They were only together for less than two months before she wound up getting pregnant, and in hindsight, she realizes that their relationship progressed way too quickly.
“But since I was getting out of an abusive relationship of three years, I thought I had struck the lottery: someone kind who loved me and wanted a family,” she recalled.
Now that she and her husband have been together for a while, though, so much has changed.
Yes, they do have three kids together– who are 5-years-old, 2-years-old, and 4-months-old. Additionally, she has custody of her little sister, who is 11.
But, she doesn’t think that she can stay with her husband anymore because he can’t hold down a job and is, to put it simply, lazy.
“He’s 30 and had only been employed six years. Prior to that, he was a drunken video gamer who lived at home with his parents due to the employment crisis and depression,” she explained.
And even though her husband has a job now, he is constantly calling out work or heading home early. So, their finances are becoming an issue.
Sure, her kids are able to be clothed, fed, and housed in a clean and safe home. However, she just doesn’t have the funds for much else besides the bare necessities.
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All of their money is joint, too, so she’s been working as a part-time piano teacher in order to boost their income.
“However, I’m so tired of being the one to have to work harder to cover his slacking behavior, like not working full shifts and voluntarily leaving anytime it’s an option, and it leads us to choose which bills to pay,” she revealed.
That’s why she is always looking for ways to earn extra cash; meanwhile, her husband never even gets his full paycheck. In fact, she claims that he hasn’t worked an entire week in a long time.
So, she’s been forced to find inventive ways to make more money, such as offering to throw paint parties, create pet portraits, and even cook meals for people. But, none of her efforts are working, and they are barely scraping by as a family.
“Being a stay-at-home mom with all of these side hustles is tearing my sanity apart,” she admitted.
And even though she is currently attending marriage counseling with her husband, she just wants to give up. His lack of effort has pushed her to not even be attracted to him anymore. But, on the other hand, she also doesn’t want to rip her family apart.
“I don’t want to be a single mother. I don’t want my kids to have two Christmases. And my husband has no family here. He moved from another country to be with me, and I think that’s a core issue with work value– he had none,” she vented.
Regardless, something has got to give because their current arrangement just isn’t sustainable. And now, she can’t help but want to divorce her “lazy husband,” but she’s unsure if that would be the wrong thing to do.
With her husband slacking so much, doesn’t it sound like she already acts like a single mother? Is it fair for her to be stuck in this situation? Do you think she should leave her husband or not? What would you do in her shoes?
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