The dynamics changed once my daughter was born. My wife had terrible postpartum depression to the point where I seriously thought she would hurt herself or our daughter. I essentially became my newborns caretaker. For the first few months, I would leave home in the morning and not know if they would be alive when I came home.
After a year we were falling behind on our bills so I suggested that my wife go back to work. That wasn't received with enthusiasm. She relented but made everyone in my home and our family miserable. There was no happiness or joy in our lives. So we decided that the next year, that she would stay home with our daughter even if we were going to struggle with money. She stayed home for four years, then when my business began to fail during the recession, she went back to work. Again, nothing but misery for my home because she had to work.
She resents me for having to work even though most people need two incomes to survive in this economy. She's never let it go. She's told me that I dissapointed her when she had to go back to work.
