For our family business
This is a combined wwyd and aibu
and my first ever thread
We sold our business in march /April. Except we didn't, it fell through after the buyer defaulted on payments and now it's ours again
Me and my partner worked there for 11 and 20 years respectively, although we enjoyed much of it we were also committing 90+ hours a week to each, never saw each other, never went on holiday together and it was just getting more and more detrimental to our lives, it was pretty normal for me to do multiple days in a row at 16-17 hours a day with an hour commute at each end of the day.
Anyway, I went and got another job after the not sale and it's bliss. I work normal hours like normal people and am enjoying it like its a holiday!
Now my partner has been recalled to the business, except it's impossible for one person to do it, so I have said I'll go in on my days off from my other job but that still leaves 5 days where she's gonna be pretty fucked. Me going on those 2 days just makes them into a more realistic work load rather than being any sort of solution
So I'm thinking of going back...
I really really don't want to go back but then I don't want my partner to suffer either and she, being the actual family part of the family business (possibly a strange distinction as we've been together for 20 odd years and I'm very much "family") doesn't feel she can just walk away.
AIBU to not want to do it?
wwyd?
If I go back it will be bad for me and probably our relationship, if I don't go then I reckon it will be bad for my partner and probably our relationship.
Partner also got a job in the meantime and has jacked it in. I don't want to jack mine in because I'm working for a friend of 20 something years and I bring quite a lot to their company and would feel bad to let them down by leaving after a few months