swedish

One of the things I love most about being married is to have someone there to pick you up when you don't feel you can stand on your own and to do that in return, because you love and care for them so much. People go through times of self-reflection and as couples, it's important to be there for each other. It almost sounds that since your early retirement, you are both questioning where your lives are at. Did your business give you focus whereas now there may be a void that you need to fill? As a mother of 3 myself, the thought of frequent traveling and/or moving to another country would just add to the chaos of life with kids, so I can understand your wife being resistant to the idea. It sounds as though you are both in the same place right now and unhappy with the relationship, and that is a scary place to be because neither of you seem mentally in a place where you can pick the other up while they are feeling down. Compromise needs to happen on both ends and sometimes it's weighted one way or the other because one or the other is going through a rough patch, but those times should be temporary. Through counseling and the marriage weekend, I hope you both are able to reconnect and come up with a compromise that works for you both. Good luck.