Has anyone had a difficult time dealing with residual resentment from their spouse?
My wife has always been non-commital to any sort of career other than her art. Because of that, she's worked dead-end jobs for a long time now.
Now she's interested in a professional career, but is discouraged about how much time it takes. (She's in her mid-thirties.)
Her response to this is to tell me that she'll "never put someone else's life before her own."
My journey through school and employment searching was very hard on us, and it did influence our choices. But if she never asserted herself about this career before (this is actually a very new interest of hers, and she has a habit of entertaining new interests in this way), why am I getting the brunt of her resentment now?
I don't know how to handle this. Truthfully, I don't think that she seriously thought about the possible outcomes of not having a "backup plan," and I never brought it up too much because she would get very angry that I would "doubt" her eventual success in the art world.
