He’s Furious That His Wife Quit Her New Job After Being Unemployed For Years, Forcing Him To Go Back To Supporting Them Both Alone
In today’s economy, many couples simply cannot afford to not have both partners working – regardless of whether they have children or not.
With high mortgage rates, increasing rent prices, and the cost of necessities like groceries and gas inflated, it can be tough to make ends meet without two household incomes.
Yet, this 29-year-old man was making it work for four whole years. He carried the expenses of his household while his wife, who is 28, was unemployed for four long years.
But, more recently, his wife finally went back to work, and at last, he was able to come up for some air.
“The help it had on us financially was legitimately life-changing,” he admitted.
His wife didn’t land a fancy corporate job or anything, either. Rather, she just started working at a local grocery store, but money is still money – regardless of where it comes from.
After years of working hard alone, he and his wife finally started to be able to afford their bills and even put aside a small savings fund.
“I’ve been working my [behind] off for years, supporting both of us and just barely scraping by. She finally got a job, and it was great,” he explained.
However, not even three months later, everything came tumbling down. In under 90 days of working at her new job, his wife suddenly claimed that she was just “too miserable.” Afterward, she actually quit her job and decimated all of their recent financial progress.
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This couldn’t have come at a worse time, too, since their rent was just raised – and he has no idea how he’s going to afford their home anymore.
“I’ve also been miserable at my job for years, yet I do it to get by. She couldn’t even last three months before giving up,” he added.
Furthermore, he believes it’s going to take his wife a long time – perhaps even a year – to find another job due to the terrible state of the job market in their local area.
So, in the wake of his wife’s quitting, he can’t help but feel furious.
“I’m very upset and disappointed in her that while I’ve been supporting us for years while being miserable at my job, she couldn’t even last three months to make our lives more comfortable,” he vented.
He’s since been forced to go back to working insanely hard to keep their heads above water. And now, he just doesn’t know what to do from here.
Do you think it’s fair that he’s been carrying their expenses alone for years? How would you feel in his shoes? What should he do?
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