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pigpen · 05-12-2008, 08:10 AM

Cindy these are all good suggestions.

Living around my husband - I have been doing that for a long time. I just continue to invite my husband along.

Stay at home isnt an option. I did that for several years, working part time and eventually we began to get into financial trouble. I went back to work full time to help stem the financial stress. At this time we also refinanced the house. I thought we were finally comeing together to make changes for the benefit of the family.
But less than 4 months after I started my new job and a week after we refinanced my husband quit his job to be a full time artist.

I could support that - except that he was an rank amateur and had only been painting a year with no stellar talent. He had sold just $400 worth of paintings when he quit. He did tell me he wanted to and I suggested he wait a while until I knew my job would be OK and we had beefed up the family finances better. He did not wait. 6 months later we had accumulated as much debit as we had tried to pay off at our refinancing. He finally gets a part time job. But now we earn even less money than before and have about twice the debit. (stemming from never having enough to make our ends meet) At least now we can meet our daily living needs.

There is more here but I have to go to work.

05-12-2008, 08:10 AM	#19 (permalink)
pigpen Member Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 46	Re: multiple problems Cindy these are all good suggestions. Living around my husband - I have been doing that for a long time. I just continue to invite my husband along. Stay at home isnt an option. I did that for several years, working part time and eventually we began to get into financial trouble. I went back to work full time to help stem the financial stress. At this time we also refinanced the house. I thought we were finally comeing together to make changes for the benefit of the family. But less than 4 months after I started my new job and a week after we refinanced my husband quit his job to be a full time artist. I could support that - except that he was an rank amateur and had only been painting a year with no stellar talent. He had sold just $400 worth of paintings when he quit. He did tell me he wanted to and I suggested he wait a while until I knew my job would be OK and we had beefed up the family finances better. He did not wait. 6 months later we had accumulated as much debit as we had tried to pay off at our refinancing. He finally gets a part time job. But now we earn even less money than before and have about twice the debit. (stemming from never having enough to make our ends meet) At least now we can meet our daily living needs. There is more here but I have to go to work.