She Won’t Find Her Husband A New Job Because She Doesn’t Think A Full-Grown Man Should Need Her Help Job Hunting While She’s Already Working Full-Time And Caring For The Kids
This 37-year-old woman and her husband, who is 39, have been married for three years now. She also has two sons– who are 6 and 4-years-old– from her previous marriage.
But, while she works full-time and then some– averaging six days a week– in addition to taking care of her kids, her husband just has a “menial state job.”
Apparently, it doesn’t pay well, and he absolutely hates his position. The only real upside is that the job has “decent” benefits, which is important since her husband has heart problems and needs to take numerous medications.
Still, her husband has been tossing the idea of finding a new job around for multiple months, and he hasn’t made any real progress.
Just the other night, she got really frustrated with him after he had an outburst, too.
It all began when her husband started going off about how he put in a bunch of job applications. Then, he just complained about how all of the positions wanted a resume.
“Or they’re all scams, and he just can’t figure out how to do it because they keep redirecting him to sign up for school, etc.,” she added.
“He yelled that trying to write a resume is ‘stupid’ and that nobody ever taught him how to do that.”
Her husband just kept going on whining for a while, too. But, once he finally stopped to take a breath, she chimed in and asked if she could make a suggestion.
fizkes – stock.adobe.com – illustrative purposes only, not the actual person
At that point, he just shrugged, so she went ahead anyway and started telling her husband about their local workforce center.
“They help with all of that– from resume writing to job hunting, you name it,” she said.
However, her husband suddenly just got really quiet once she mentioned the workforce center. Then, out of nowhere, he just stood up and began screaming again. But that time, his anger was directed at her.
Her husband claimed that she just didn’t care about him at all and thought that if she did, then she would be willing to help him.
Plus, he believes that he shouldn’t need to “beg some stranger” to get some help applying for jobs.
After his outburst, he also stormed into their bedroom and slammed the door behind him. In her mind, though, her husband was out of line for expecting her to find him a job on top of her own work and home responsibilities.
“Honestly, after an eight to 12-hour work day, making dinner, bathing the boys, and getting them to bed, the idea of having to job hunt for a full-grown man because he’s too proud to seek help kind of irks me. I’m not gonna lie,” she vented.
Nonetheless, with her husband now upset with her, she can’t help but wonder if not helping him find a new job really does make her a jerk.
Do you agree that her husband is a grown man who can seek help himself? Should she feel guilty about not finding him a job or not?
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