This is more of a, "OUR money situation is fine, but you should be spending any extra money YOU have on YOUR kids, and maybe on YOUR wife. Not on YOURself."

I subscribe to the airplane oxygen mask theory - where the parent puts THEIR oxygen mask on FIRST before helping their child. IF you were already feeling great about yourself then spending that "extra" money on yourself would seem a bit selfish. BUT what you were doing is part of a plan to get yourself in a better place which makes you a better parent which is merely getting the oxygen mask on yourself first.

Do the two of you have any mutual interests which you could start doing TOGETHER? I think that it would be EQUALLY important to develop a mutual interest as it is for you to focus on making your needs a priority. BALANCE is the goal, right???

Oh and I thought things had improved a bit with the ML issue. Is that true or not?

Also I do remember that back in March your wife was very considerate about your desire to watch your beloved Jayhawks get beat in the tourney. I thought she even gave you a kiss and said she was sorry they lost. That does not sound like a heartless, unreasonable b1tch to me.




But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? ~Albert Camus