S&A - You don't know how close yours and my situations are. The only difference is that I am 10 more years into it than you and I did (like an idiot) act on my thoughts of cheating (which I sorely regret now).

For years I have thought that she needed to work again. Not for the money but for the self-esteem. She was so much more confident when she was working. Like your thoughts, I felt guilty when I would push her to work again.

The problem now is she is threatening to go to work at Wal-mart, \:\( not exactly a high esteem job. She used to worked in the credit dept. at a bank.

Well at least there is an external reason for her to get out now.

My job hunt is going ok. I've got a couple of leads already, still have to wait for the layoff to get severence first though. It was actually pretty nice of them to give us a heads up about what was about to happen so we could get a jump on this. Also been tweaking the resume a little.

Cinco