Again, fit me to a T. She did talk about retiring and used to complain about her job. Now she tells everybody she has so much to do and so many people to help that she is not retiring from her social worker position. It's amazing how she has so much luuuuuv for everybody else, including strangers and has nothing but animosity and indiference for the man that loved her for 23 years. Go figure.
g450, my wife was and is a social worker too but she's a Supervisor, so above a lowly mental health worker like myself. She used to continually complain about her job too, and I'd listen for hours...but didn't know how to listen according to her. Damn, I now wish I had of told her to shut her cakehole and did something more rewarding like watch more sports! I always wondered the same as you, how come she has so much patience for everyone else who works for her or clients she deals with but none for the man she's shared 17 years of her life with! I did friggin' everything to make her life less stressful, I cooked, picked up the kids, took them to appointments, managed the finances...you name it I did it (except the laundry, she wouldn't let me do that...not that I fought too hard for the job!) Hey, but this is Romeo's thread to bitch on, so I'll stop now.