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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Also, OP, is it possible that your wife is depressed? [/quote]

My therapist mentioned this as a possibility. One of the reasons I have stepped back and am trying to deal with how I am feeling is that there's only so much I can do about this if I am holding on to being resentful (even though it's normal to feel resentful even if your spouse is sick and you are suddenly the sole income earner like the up thread PP). It's not post-partum, but I am hoping that in the next year or so when our youngest starts preschool, DW can really face her own stuff. Without the kids being an excuse to not really look inward.

Because the few times I have tried to point out that maybe staying home is an avoidance of something bigger, the tears arrive along with a complete shut down and there's nothing I can do with that (and I really care about my wife--she just isn't the person I know right now). I actually went to therapy because I really didn't know what else to do and love my wife and want to stay married. I know resentment can kill us. I'm just trying to stop that.

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