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She’s so irritated with her husband that she’s going out of her way to pick fights with him, which she acknowledges as unfair and something that’s keeping them both in awful moods.
The thing is, she’s sick and tired of financially supporting her husband, and she’s not sure how to force him to finally get a real job and be an adult.
She has got her husband to attend therapy to discover some motivation and improve his mental health, but he complains about it so much that she feels like she is forcing him to show up for his appointments.
“I’m becoming someone I don’t like, starting fights and being miserable,” she said. “I really love this person—he is incredibly kind, and he does support me emotionally more than anyone I’ve ever met.”
“But I am so stressed out about finances, I work all the time to support us (probably about 50 hours a week on average, frequently more, and my job is very challenging and stressful). I’m also getting to a point where the stress of being the sole breadwinner combined with aging is starting to result in physical issues, and I’m losing hope that things will ever improve.”
“I desperately want advice on what I can do to improve this. I don’t want to leave; I love him and don’t want to lose him in my life—I also worry about what would happen to him if I did because he has no savings and no job, and I wouldn’t want him to end up homeless. I would much prefer to make it work if at all possible.”
What do you think she should do?
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