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Old Jan 04, 2025, 09:16 AM
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Originally Posted by RDMercer View Post
Before jumping over the handrail and taking the plunge of being single....

You're 34. Were the last seven years hard and tiring? Will the next 50 years be better?

Can you and your partner do anything to improve how you feel about this marriage?

If you can't see a way forward, and if you feel there's unhappiness ahead, here's a crazy idea.... Teach internationally.

That way you get housing provided.

It used to be that those jobs don't pay extremely well, but your cost of living was practically nothing.
OP lives in the state where teachers are finally paid decently, after covid and new leaderships. It’s affordable to support oneself, even if not lavishly. Ton of singles do.

She complained about this relationship and being unhappy many times over the years. If it was bad before marriage, it doesn’t get better after. And it didn’t.

I see you quoted me so that’s why I am commenting. I am not randomly advising divorce. Basing it on reading about of at least a few years of misery.
Thanks for this!
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