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Help, totally stuck. Has anyone else been here?

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Isawthesignanditopenedupmyeyes · 20/01/2019 13:05

I’ve been with my husband for 25 years and it’s always been a bit rocky, we aren’t necessarily well matched. He’s very laid back, not ambitious at all, manual worker. I’m the opposite, stressed, professional job, successful at work.
I have a simmering resetment at being the main bread earner and his inability to manage finances. He’s had a lot of debt from his inability to run a business (repeatedly) that I pay off.
I’m so angry about it that I’m so unfair to him in the rest of our lives. I snap at the littlest thing, scream at him in front of the children. He doesn’t/can’t change over the finance issue.
Is great in every other area, fabulous parent, great around the house, funny, kind.
I know I should accept we are good at different things and play to our strengths and help him with his business/get employment instead (which is where the debt arises from) but I’m so bloody angry and resentful.
I work harder and harder to make sure we are financially secure as I never know what the next financial surprise may be and don’t want to rely on him financially at all (and I don’t).
I can’t afford to divorce him. I don’t even know if I want to.
We don’t have sex. He wants to, I have no desire to have sex with him and have had to stop myself from being attracted to other men.
I’m a horrible person with him and he doesn’t deserve this.
Feel totally and utterly stuck. Have posted quite a few times over the years and I’m still in the same position. Can anyone offer any words of wisdom to help be move forward?

OP posts:
TowelNumber42 · 21/01/2019 13:12

Do what you can to get those debts back in his name on his own loans or his own credit cards.

category12 · 21/01/2019 13:21

I doubt he's going to fall for that given the last few days. I think op may have to suck it up. Possible that they will be considered jointly liable if both parties benefitted, tho.

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