BeingMe--LOL!! at least your dream was colorful and you got to be a heroic character!!
I don't know about symbolic purpose; I just know that I've been working thru stuff at a different level here lately and turning some corners, and I assume this has something to do with that. Sometimes dreams are pretty clear, sometimes not so much. I'm not all that inclined to dig deep here, I think it's just part of the working thru.
oh, just to be clear--I didn't pay for my xH's graduate school or internship--he had grants and an assistantship. But I was the sole breadwinner for the first 3 years of our marriage, doing a heinous job with awful hours to pay all of our expenses.
M60 H52 D20 M14 yrs OW-old gf from 1986 bomb-5/18/08 H filed for D-9/10/08 D final 4/24/09 xH remarried (not OW) 2012