Dear Queenie,
My husband works all the time and when he gets a day off it is a day I still have to work, so we don’t have much time together. And even with both of us working we can’t catch up with all our bills.
What’s worse is we can’t have a normal conversation. Everything has to be some kind of joke and if I disagree with him about something he gets mad at me.
I don’t think he cheats on me, but I just can’t take much more of this.
Queenie, what do you recommend?—Frustrated wife
Dear Wife,
To start with, you need some kind of financial counselling to help the two of you work out a budget so that you are living within your combined income and paying off your accumulated bills.
Then (as usual) I recommend professional marriage counselling to help you understand and work out your other problems. If your husband will not go with you, go without him to learn how to cope – and whether you really want to continue to do so.
