Keep Wearing Wedding Band? [Thread #9]

[ForGump]

Because I was a fix-it nice guy, because I was co-dependent, because I just jumped at every chance to take care of my wife and my family... my wife never really had to wrestle w/ the financial and practical realities of living a middle-class life in America. I paid all the bills, I fixed all the broken stuff, I coordinated most of the health care. My doing everything for her helped engender in her mind a warped and naive view of what a divorce would look like, as well as fuel her sense of emptiness, and a growing resentment for a loss of control of her life. There's nothing that makes you feel a sense of purpose like struggling, and I'm guilty of taking that away from her.