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[quote=Anonymous]Op, sorry people are nuts.

There is no reason your wife can't make more money. Your teens don't need a housekeeper or someone home when they get home or someone to stay with them on sick days. there are millions of teens in the world with working parents

I agree with a previous poster that you need to put aside your frustration and exasperation, no matter how valid they are and approach this as a team. Look at the budget and decide together where to cut back. Explain that the pressure of being the sole breadwinner with the expectation that you can alone can find everything needed is causing you significant stress an you can't continue as is. Something has to change. Brainstorm what can change. You are already fillin more than your financial weight and you have a stable good income, at this point she needs to look at options. Even if she can bring in 50k a year that would be a big help.

Discuss together how to budget what you have currently and what will suffer. Do you not find collee or retirement? Have those conversations.

If you start the conversation in a confront ational manner she is just going to get defensive and feel unappreciated. You need to talk about it from a financial aspect and from your own well being. There is nothing wrong with saying, I can't keep doing this the way we are, something has to change.

I don't see any reason why divorce would be on the table and it would put you, her, and the kids in a worse financial position. You just need to have a 'we' have a problem, how do 'we' fix this. It isn't you against her.[/quote]

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