Evening,
I'm not a teacher. My DP is, and has been for about 13'years - secondary, core subject. Recently the stress and workload have increased drastically, and it's starting to take its toll on our home life. We have three children under three, and we both feel like we're cracking under the strain. He resents me for my "easy" life looking after children. I resent him for never being me with those children. The stress of his job is causing all of this. I try to do as much as I can to make life easier for him, but there's only so much I can do when I feel like I'm going insane looking after two babies and a toddler. When I return to work he'll resent my "easy" job there too. My job isn't easy, but it's significantly more manageable than his and has less negative impact on our lives.
Teachers, what do you need from your non-teaching partners? What do you expect them to do to help make your life easier? I want to help him, but the strain is such that, at the moment, sometimes I think that he became a teacher by choice, it's up to him to deal with it. But I know it's not his fault. I have a huge amount of respect for teachers, I certainly couldn't do it. At the moment a change of career is impossible, but I know that that'll have to happen eventually because he's said himself that the job will kill him.
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Sm00thCriminal · 30/03/2016 21:27
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