Quote: I feel like, as the main earner in the family, that if we have to spend less, or can't do certain things, I am a failure. I didn't provide well enough. So what happens is I often pay less attention to our financial sitch (which my W takes care of...all the bills, etc) and maybe I spend too much on occasion. I know that's MY problem and is not really the case (the failure part) but it's how I feel and my W doesn't get that.
A lot of what I went through and what caused our breakdown - and I hope other's read this too because I think we need to help them understand - at least. It's funny because we (W and I) did an "Ah-hah" and looked at each other during a recent viewing of the movie RV with Robin Williams - predicatable comedy but all about a guy that has lost touch with his family and comes to realise the importance of it all - and F the lifestyle. I can't TELL you how many times my W told me that (although I do wonder what she would have been like had I not risen into the corporate ranks).
Glad to hear things are chugging along. Complacency is the enemy.
You sum it up well in a prior post.
Quote: Hey, it's the stepping, and the direction that's important, not how big the steps are.
All the best.
Sven
Never sacrifice the great for the good. Sometimes the beauty of grace is that it makes life not fair.
