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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not really sure that you would have to give up your career. I am immunosuppressed and am an elementary school teacher. I do everything I can to prevent getting sick (constant handwashing, not touching doorknobs or students' pencils, clothes come off right when I get home and I get in the shower etc) but if my spouse was the one who was a teacher I wouldn't expect that he give up his career because of me. But I would expect he would do the best he could to avoid bringing germs home. What is your exact situation?[/quote]

+1.  Both of the scenarios OP presented seem workable to me.[/quote]

OP here. They aren't the exact situation, but it's a situation where there's not really a workable solution, [b]at least not one that spouse is willing to try.[/b] [/quote]
That's the real issue. I wouldn't give up the security of my career if someone couldn't be flexible and I wouldn't want to be with someone who couldn't be flexible if I was ill[/quote]

OP, you DH should let you try other options first before going to the most drastic one. He's probably frightened so is looking for the most foolproof. But even people with medical conditions cannot expect the entire world to bend for them, or for their spouse to give up something so fundamental without trying alternatives first.[/quote]

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