Help, it seems my 35 year old wife is in MLC #12

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W's situation hit her today. She had been sick and I asked her how she felt today. She said "I feel physically better but I started looking at my expenses today....."

She is in a real mess.

I think she has finally started to realize the stress that she has put herself under with her career. She says that she is thinking about changing careers and may even be interested in driving a delivery van for a living. I think this is an over reaction to the stress she has had to deal with for a few years but I also don't see it as being feasible for her financially.

Her situation is bleak. She has one position in her field to apply for. She has talked to a couple head hunters and they say there is nothing availble right now and she went to a general employment agency and they also told her that getting any job is bleak right now. So she is nervous.

She is doing something that I don't understand. twice now she has inferred adult knowledge and emotions on D6. Months ago, she told me that she told D6 (D5 then) that "she didn't meet OW until a month after she left" this was to imply to D6 that she didn't leave me for OW. Why would you tell a 5 year old this?

Then today she tells me that both the kids were having a bad day. S8 was having a crying fit becasue his sister gets more toys for her birthday than he does (I don't know what that is about. It's not true and her birthday was 10 days ago and his was 10 months ago) W also told me that D6 was in a bad mood too.

W realized that there was something deeper going on than what the kids were saying but she figured that they were upset because they were worried that she had lost her job. S8 barely has the concept of money. There is no way that he understand the concept of job loss and financial crisis. Oddly, when I said this to W, she got really quiet. I got on the phone with S8 and tried to get him to talk to me but he wouldn't open up. I could tell something was bothering him though.

It just occurs to me while typing this that I wonder if W and OW had an argument about Ws situation in front of the kids. It would explain why W was worried about money today and why the kids were upset. It would also explain why W thought they were upset about her job loss. I'm speculating though.