Do not compare yourself to others, we all have our lives.

But your post did bring tears to my eyes. Thank you for saying all that.

I was only married briefly in young age and only recently married again at age 50 so I spend my entire adult life (until now) single and on one hand I always worked and often more than one job because I love working but also because I never had no one to pay my bills, never moved back home, never lived with parents and no one ever paid my bills. It was either work full time and sometimes take a second job on or be destitute. Not a good choice

Somebody called me pish-posh on this site because I mentioned i travel a lot and I buy nice things and spend money on stuff like theater etc yeah But I can do that because I work a ton and have nice income due to hard work. Money don’t grow on trees.

Honestly I am tired. I love my job but two hours commute a day in traffic about kill the joy and I am not interested in changing jobs. So I’d maybe quit if I could or didn’t need a pension. But I’d have to really change my life style as I have no idea how people live on one income. My husband makes good money, a bit more than me but he pays spousal support to his ex who never worked and still doesn’t. And it’s a lot. So I’ll keep on working. Until I retire.

We all have our lives, sometimes things are a necessity and sometimes a choice but mostly combination of both

Thank you again for kind words.