Is that all my husband can ever talk about?
I love him, and we have a good marriage, but it's starting to really get on my nerves that at least 90 percent of his conversation is all about how tight money is, what he can and can't afford, what he has to work into the budget and save up for, what bills he's just paid, and what bills he has yet to pay.
Sure he's worried about money. Who isn't? But isn't there anything else to talk about?
I can't contribute financially, not yet, but it's being worked on. I've got my driver's licence, and Vocational Rehabilitation (to employ people with disabilities) is in the community assessment phase with me. We have to find me a volunteer position so they can watch me and see where my strengths and weakness are. But the thing is, I just got out of the hospital with a depression flareup. All that constant complaining about money puts pressure on me, makes me feel like he's pushing me to start earning and helping out with the bills, when I'm doing the best I can do, and it even makes me wonder if he'd be better off without me so he wouldn't have so many bills to worry about.
And if it's not money, it's all the chores around the house that he automatically assumes HE has to do, even if I've already told him that my daughter or I will take care of that. Sometimes he even complains that he has to do such and such, when I'm on the way to do it.
Why all this "I carry the whole load" attitude? Where is any acknowledgement of what anyone else does?
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