My husband started working from home last year. I have found it very disruptive. He shouts at his computer throughout the day. If someone annoys him at work, he comes to tell me about it. Our house is very small so I can hear him no matter where I go.

I am trying to change careers. Most of the work I'm doing right now is not paid, but I am enrolled in a few classes, doing probono projects to gain experience, and working on a written portfolio due in August that will be graded and open a lot of doors. My work product is a technical form of writing that requires a lot of concentration and focus. When he interrupts me to rant about his day, I lose my focus. It also sets me on edge because it is so negative. I am just so tired of it.

I have asked him so many times to stop but nothing changes. I feel like his attitude is that since I am not getting paid (until this week!), that it doesn't count as work and he should feel free to interrupt me. Or maybe it is not even that complicated - it is as simple as whatever I am doing couldn't be as important as listening to him. He claims I interrupt him also but if I do, it is to ask him what he wants for lunch and it's extremely infrequent, maybe a few times a week vs. multiple times per day.

I don't really know where to go from here. I just feel like I am losing my mind due to not having solid blocks of time to focus and the constant threat of an interruption. If I am sitting in the room next to his, it can be every fifteen minutes on a bad day. Now I sit as far away from his office as possible which limits it to once an hour or two.