Spoue tried I didn't, now opposite #2

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I am assuming this became the norm for your family?

Yes JF, our family moved further apart from my anger and I usually stayed behind.

Plain old resentment because they got to have fun all the time while I was working my butt off to provide for them

You betcha. Mostly why we fought. I felt I was the only one caring about bills and carrying the financial load.

You described close to our last 5-6 years of M. Working 7 days a week (mostly 12hr shifts) really wears on ya. I should've been smarter to know what was going on, all the warning signs were there, and in-laws kept reiterating it to W. I never invited my family into our struggles by being too proud to admit I couldn't handle it.