My wife quit her job almost 6 months ago and we are now really struggling financially.

As per the title, my wife quit her job almost 6 months ago and we are now really struggling financially.

She wasn’t happy in her previous job, she didn’t hate the job but it wasn’t a great environment, we had talked about her finding something else while employed on several occasions.

Then she quit without any warning.

She got her last wage from them and we got Christmas and New year out of the way.

Maybe I’m over thinking this but surely finding a new job should be the highest priority right now?

She has applied for a few things very recently but theres just these huge periods of time where nothing happens.

I understand mental health is important and being somewhere that makes you unhappy is absolutely no good, but my wage barely covers everything, throw in the usual bills that come around and we just don’t have enough.

I worked a ton of overtime at the back end of last year and we had managed to save a few thousand $$, finally enough for a decent family trip away (we have kids), 80% of that has now been used to pay bills and other expenses, just makes me sad that the family trip we could have had is now most likely not going to happen.

Honestly I have no idea what we would have done if that money hadn’t been there, its the only reason we have managed so far.

I’m just so frustrated, feels like we had finally got ourselves into a reasonable position financially and its all been undone.

I think I’m doing a decent job of being supportive but at the same time I’m exhausted and completely stressed out, yet it feels to me like I’m just meant to get on with everything, I’m sure at some point it will sort itself out but I just can’t help but keep thinking ‘I understand why you did this but you really need to apply for significantly more jobs, we just can’t manage’

I know she is also stressed and if I was to complain about the spent savings etc I imagine it would cause a huge argument.

What did other people do in a similar situation?

TL;DR - My wife quit her job and we are now really struggling financially.

Thanks

Submitted April 14, 2022 at 05:55PM by Parvulus86 https://ift.tt/mHaGQrE