My name is Marcia and I’m not happy with my husband.
Even before we met, both Anthony and I were driven career people who were always striving for the top. Even after we married, this carried on as we excelled at our jobs and worked our hardest to prove our work in our respective fields.
But I began feeling burnt out.
I reached a point where I wanted a career change and, to make that move, I needed Anthony’s support.
Because of the change in our lifestyles that this demanded, I didn’t have it.
Keep reading to learn about why I wasn’t happy with my husband and how we took steps to improve our marriage. Hopefully my story will be able to help you out of your situation as well.
I worked in advertising and Anthony was in finance. We met each other at a networking event and started seeing each other shortly after.
We found each other’s company to be a welcome break from the pace of our careers and somehow managed to make married life work even though we each spent a lot time at the office.
About three years into our marriage, I began to lose interest in what I did. The long hours were taking a toll on my health, and I generally began dreading climbing out of bed every morning. I just kept thinking: this is so terrible, really I’m not happy with my husband.
I decided to leave my job and go into teaching, which is what I did part time while I was still in college. Anthony seemed ambivalent at first, but it turned into full time disdain when I began working as a middle school teacher.
See, I was making a little less than half of what I had been before, and that meant having to adjust our lifestyles in some ways. I began to realize that my husband is not supportive of my decision when he would make comments about what I decided to do.
And things only got worse from there.
When he would comment, I would lash back. This would lead to more than a few arguments between us until it reached a point where we were sleeping in separate rooms.
We were drifting apart in our marriage and the divide was growing larger by the day.
Not only was I not happy with my husband, but I realized that my husband is not my friend, my husband is not affectionate; I am not happy in my marriage overall, and all because I wanted to do something different.
My marriage to Anthony meant everything in the world, so what could I do to show the man that I’ve loved for so long that he was hurting me?
I knew there had to be a way for the two of us to work through our marriage problems, but I didn’t think that the tradition type of marriage counseling was the answer in our case.
Money was at the root of our problem, but it was because we didn’t have as much as we used to, not that we didn’t have any at all.
When I think about how I wasn’t happy with my husband, you have to consider the fact that he is very proud and status means the world to him. The fact that we had to scale back on a few things thanks to the changed income didn’t sit well with him.
Still, this was what I wanted to do and I don’t think traditional marriage counseling would have been a good way to make him see that. After looking for a while, I found a marriage counseling alternative that, above all else talked about communication and the role it plays in a successful marriage.
I was not happy with my husband because our communication wasn’t as strong as it should have been. When I explained why I needed a career change and why teaching was what I wanted to do, Anthony was somewhat receptive, though not completely understanding.
Still, communication put us on the path to compromise.
Our marriage is still very much a work in progress, but I do feel like Anthony and I are slowly getting there.
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