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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Even though it seems as if she willingly left her career/job, probably in the back of her mind, it wasn't leaving, it was postponing.  When the kids are in school, when the kids are teenagers, when things aren't so busy, when our schedule slows down - I'll be able to go back and do somethings I always wanted and planned on.

Now she's realizing how much time has passed and none of it has happened.  And feels she's running out of time to have or do something she always thought she would.  Yes, kind of a mid-life crisis, but that doesn't make it any easier if she plans and dreams and she's facing that they won't ever be realized.
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This. If you didn't do any of the work at home, why should she now have to work on your behalf entertaining clients, etc..?

She probably still loves you OP, the kids sound like they are at least high school age or even in college, she's just tired of not having her own identity that maybe she thought she would have when you two were in grad school together. Maybe she loved staying home with the kids and making your home welcoming at one time, but now she wants to move on with her identity and not have to do things for her dh's career entirely. Not sure what is so hard to figure out about this--it sounds like the people in OP's career have opposing values to her own and she wants to be her own person and feel free to have opinions etc...

OP, you need to do some thinking about how much personal life and business you combine, and why your wife has to be so involved in your business. Do you have to have a wife / date at every event? Can you be trusted to be there by yourself? What would happen if your wife retrained for another career or she didn't have to attend these social events? Anything?

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