My ED has almost broke my marriage up more times then I can count. Could you walk instead of running? Bring a shake instead of water? I know how hard it is but if you don’t gain weight fast then you’ll end up in the hospital or worse. What is your favorite food? Can you eat a bowl of oatmeal before you go for your walk? What about waiting until your daughter is home and taking a walk with her? It’ll let her decompress her day and prevent you from actually running.

I know it’s weird but try to get her (and you) into magic the gathering. Starter deck packs are around $20 at your local game store. It’s a card game with nice art and strategy great for gamers. Make her help cook. It lets you have time to teach her how to eat healthy and can take your mind off the calories. Do you all eat at the table? If not I would start. Serve yourself at least as much as you serve your daughter. This prevents you from under serving yourself. Look for a pottery place or a paint your own pottery store. We use to go and spend the whole day painting a tile it cost us $4 each. I know I’m giving you money ideas and your negative $ right now but I have no free ideas.

As for you working have you looked into homeschool co-ops? Teaching at them can easily make you $30-$50+/hour for one 4-5 hr day. It usually starts at 9-10am and lasts till 2-3 pm during the school year. My husband is on the cheap side and he makes $31 per hr per co-op. However he still has to provide everything that is needed. It’s too late for this semester but put your feelers out for next semester. Look into tutoring homeschoolers. It would be while your daughter was in school and you can make good money and be flexible. Texas has a huge home school community. It doesn’t require you to homeschool either.

My husband and I use to have these cards called 52 wks of romance. It’s not available now. We would each pick one and do that for the person if we really didn’t like the idea we would throw that card away and pick a different one. We would save the ones we did so we could reuse them again after we were out of the scratch off ones. It was just nice to show your appreciation for one another (warning it did have sexual suggestions at times). Remember he is your best friend first. Other than telling your best friend to leave the situation (because you can’t control who they are with) What would you do for that friend to make their life easier if their partner was being crappy? Then do that for your husband.