With no kids either

So my husband works at a big business firm and his competitor wants to have lunch with me to make an incredible business deal. Working with him would make my income grow immensly. I'm at 100k a year right now but it will be boosted between 150k-200k My boss wants me to make this deal with him and if I will I will get a huge bonus and promotion. My husband is making this miserable for me because they are competitors. I have a lunch get together with him tomorrow.. Why doesn't my husband understand that this will make our income increase? I'm the breadwinner in the relationship and he makes about 30k a year. What's his problem? His competitor is incredibly good looking but I'm only attracted to my husband :/

He lives in Europe now and we broke up a couple of years ago. We considered marriage in the past, so it was pretty serious. I learned on social media today that he asked his girlfriend to marry him. By the way, he was claiming he was on and off seeing someone just because he was lonely (so I didn't know he had a girlfriend two weeks ago when we Had sex). I am upset. On the one hand, I feel very much used. On the other, I feel like I dodged a bullet because what kind of a man sleeps with someone else if he is about to get engaged (with a ring and everything). What do you think?

We were at her friends get together or party. She asked I front of everyone to get married. Under peer pressure I said yes. Now I'm thinking of ways to tell her I dont want to get married without getting dumped

I hate all that lovey-dovey romance crap & my boyfriend knows and respects this so we thankfully don't celebrate valentines day, instead he's going to hang out with friends while I stay home much to my delight. However, his sister is completely freaking out over it for no damn reason after I answered her text about what her brother and I had planned. I had to call my boyfriend to reassure him that I was truly okay with our original plan after his sister got him worked up over it. His sister still hasn't let up on this & constantly sends me "valentines date" ideas or the "best rom-com" movies (blech) which I delete without a second thought. How do I tell her to back off and stop it? She isn't listening to her brother who told her to knock it off she's two texts away from being blocked for a while because I'm so fed up with her at this point. I'm not that type of girl never have been & never will be

You hear women say, I just want a guy with a dad bod and who's just an average guy who likes to drink beer and be lazy with me. That's pretty sad tbh. You never hear a man say the same thing when looking for a partner. If you heard a man say he just wants a fat chick who eats Cheetos and drinks beer and is lazy, you'd think he's crazy. But for women, it's like those standards are normal, and it's sad. I'm a woman with a career, who's in shape, is outgoing and adventurous, and expects the same from a guy I'd date. I don't date losers but all my girl friends say they can't find a decent guy and just want a guy who works at the gas station and smokes weed and is nice. That's their standards. I know tons of men who are a lot better than that and I don't know why my girl friends can't meet decent men. I meet them all the time, guys who are funny, handsome, smart, good job, fit, outgoing and charismatic, etc

And making them feel as if they're inferior to their wives and unworthy of being loved?

If a couple isn't planning to have kids, is it still a wise idea to get married?

Divorce shouldn't be an option in a happy marriage.

I ve been married for seven years and I m at home parent to two children. I've been noticing several things about me in the last couple of months. I am steps behind what's going on with the rest of the world. For example, I was pretty good at knowing what my children need but now I have no clue. And it seems I am woefully out of step with my wife in terms of what she wants. This causes frustration on her part and abject OMG fear on my part as I blunder something else. When her friends invite us out, I wonder why they invite me and I wonder if they really want me along or are just being polite. I start thinking I don't belong there and I don't socialize and that causes problems. Growing up I lacked confidence and I felt inferior. I thought I overcame these thoughts and beliefs about myself. All of a sudden, these thoughts have come back with a vengeance, Is this due to marriage and parenthood or did I not resolve my issues?

He has been planning a divorce for over a year and finally had the guts to break it off. he now has moved his new girlfriend in. He is 59 and she is 39. she is a russian undocumented woman. they are now engaged, bc i'm guessing she wants a greencard. i have not spoken to him in over 3 months. am i doing wrong by not talking to him?

I have been married for 17 years and my mother in law just continuously gets worse and we're at wits end. When I am working FT, she will try to tell my husband or pass rumors, I'm not working to cause problems or drama. Fast forward two years, I'm pregnant with my second child and high risk due to 2 previous miscarriages, blood pressure, and my husband and I agreed for me to be a stay at home mom for now to focus on the pregnancy, extra appointments, and our well being. My mother in law threw a fit bc I was stay at home. She tried to speak negative about me around my 10 year old daughter one day(saying I was lazy and using pregnancy as an excuse) and my daughter spoke to me about it. We need to travel 40 mins to deliver my baby at a high risk hospital in June by c-section and last week she told my husband and I it was foolish and she wanted us at a local hospital. When my husband approaches her about the things she says or does to me, him, or our daughter she just raises her voice and says she is allowed to have an opinion or Express herself. It's almost like she is jealous bc she is trying so hard to split us up, but is losing. She hates when we go on vacation, travel anywhere, go out for meals, see movies, its ridiculous. Any suggestions on what to do? I absolutely refuse to feed into her and just stay quiet, or keep my distance, bc I will not stoop to her level for the sake of my children or my husband. Everytime there is a function, she will tell my husband and say she will come pick us up and take us with her. If we say we're going to drive like everyone else, she flips. I'm 36, my husband is 38. She is 60. It's a control aspect I think.....

I have been married to my wife for 10 years and have known her for 12. Her family is quirky but are good people. Her friends, who are mostly her colleagues from work, are very good people. Both groups have treated me very well. We have children. My parents are dead and I do not see friends and relatives much. There is obviously a lot of good shared history between my wife and her family and friends. I know I can't change that history but it makes me a bit uncomfortable and I don't want to be around them. If she wants to go see them, I have no problem at all if she does and I want her to. I just don't want to go. Is this normal and how should I deal with this?

I'm a young married guy with 2 kids, but I'm upset that my married neighbor is moving to San Francisco. His wife is so beautiful, I talk to her all the time and I enjoy the eye candy. Should I feel upset that she's moving?

We are asian couple, and my wife is in her mid 20s, a beautiful, atractive small asian woman. On our vacation in central America early this year, there are alot of young muscular black men there hit on her and at the bars in the resort, few young muscular black men actually approached and talked to my wife and told her they really like her. My wife felt really horny when those musclular black men tell her they like her body. My wife told me that night when we came back to our hotel from the bar. She asked me if I could let her try it one time for fun if next time we go vacation there. If I allow her try that black man, She will let me stay in the room when she has sex with black man too. We go to central america for short vacation very often. We are very open minded young asian couple we talk open about sex all time. Should I go ahead and let my wife have sex with strange black man?

im not stupid everyone can see it there. So ive applied for snap and filed for custody and waiting on legal aide to call me back. What else can or should i be doing at the moment?

My wife and I sort of got into it this past week over and Issue we differ on. For a few years now I've only been able to find contract and temporary jobs through staffing agencies. My wife works full time and has everyone in the house insured on her company plan. That everyone includes me, her, here two sons aged 22 and 23, and my 22 year old college daughter. Well, I've been working a contract assignment since this past Oct or so and this past week I was informed that the company would like to bring me on full time. I'me very happy about that. In discussing it with my wife the topic of benefits and insurance came up. I told her that since my daughter was still in school of course I was going to insure her and possibly even consider insuring my wife for the extra coverage for both of us. She then asked me if I was going to insure her sons and I told her probably not simply because her youngest graduated college a few years ago and lives primarily with his girlfriend at her parent's house. He only comes home about 2 or 3 days a week. And, her oldest son has 2 kids of his own. So no, I'm not going to insure a man who has kids. If you're adult enough to have kids then you don't need to be still on your parent's insurance. You need to be working to support your own kids. My wife feels I'm wrong because we all need insurance and since you can insure grown kids until they are almost 30 why not? I told her that I wasn't. Are we raising a generation of kids who will be dependent upon their parents forever or at what point do you cut the string and tell them to try and not get sick? Fend for yourself? I think my parents dropped me off their insurance when I graduated college but back then I didn't get sick or injured that much. A cold here or there and that was about it. I'm not having money taken out of my check for a grown *** man who would just rather lay around and have multiple babies. Nor one who is only home a few nights a week. Am I wrong and is this a battle I should fight with my wife?

When they divorced I was used as a pawn to get the other back and it was especially by my Mom. Like her telling us my Dad left us, instead of her. Also being kept from visiting him over Christmas and having to wait until after New Year. Told he liked me but it was not love cause he couldn't love anyone. As a 9 year old I internalized all this. I believed it all. It wrote on the slate of who I am today almost 20 years later. On my Dad's end he would not fight my Mom in court and he also argued to her in front of us the couple times of year we did see him. I felt growing up he did not love us. My Dad says "well that was 20 years ago so time to let it go" and nothing else while my mother gets defensive and says she was trying to protect us from his unkind attitude towards her and his girlfriend who was not patient with us kids (I have two siblings). Then she says "why do you care and your sisters have moved on". All this hurts cause I am so scared I could lose a family member to rejection again like I did as a kid. I go to extreme measures to prevent this and it is an obsession. I am in therapy but get grief for that also "how many more years will you be seeing that doctor" or "they just want to drug you up". How can I get my parents to have more understanding of things I am very sensitive to due to childhood traumas regarding their divorce and have appreciation for the suffering?

My brother has a good job good, good money, wife two young kids but I think his depressed. He is very angry aggressive moody and shows no interest in his life. He lashed out at me the weekend in front of my children so now I can't be around him anymore as I feel he is a danger. I have spoken to his wife and she agreed that he needs professional help but he won't accept that his behaviour is wrong or that anything is wrong. He told our mum he wants to kill himself n I'm scared there's truth in this statement. He was drinking a lot at one point but has now stoped. Where do we go from here

I am 53 and never went on a Valentine's Day date. In all my adult years, I dated three females. One moved to Florida. The other left me for another man. The third became my wife and a short time later my ex-wife. Bad luck in love. Can you relate to this nightmare?

We were talking, or should I say I was bringing up everything I felt that needed to change about the way we treat each other in this relationship and brought up the fact that I almost filed for divorce and if it was not for my mother I would have done that. Now he keeps repeating it and tell me that I don't care about wedding vows, until death do us part. And that now he will constantly have in mind that if I don't get my way I will want to divorce. he was emotionally abusive and he started changing. But still there were a lot of things that were built up between us and I felt like I had to let this out. Now he wants to act like I quit on marriage easily when he was not making any effort. How do you think this is going to affect him? He did cry a little, while I was crying too. He told me I wanted to break this family up. When he wasn't making efforts.

Virtues that indicate that a woman will be a good mother for the children.

My wife is pregnant with our 3rd baby she's been really depressed lately she was never depressed during her first two pregnancies she was always happy. Our kids are too young to understand what's going on our daughter is 3 our son is 1. Our daughter is also really worried I am too. I don't know how to tell her about it or even if I should tell her. My wife is still in bed it's after 11:30 I been trying to get her out of bed she doesn't want to. She does this everyday we don't even stay up late anymore only if we go out but we go to bed between 9 and 10. She sleeps till 10 or 11 or later. I keep asking her if she's ok she says she is I don't think she is. How can I comfort her ?

My wife is pregnant with our 3rd baby she's been very depressed lately she was never depressed during her first two pregnancies she was always happy this one she's acting really weird. She's been having nightmares about me cheating on her which I would never do I don't know why she's having these dreams. She cries at everything or nothing even if we kiss or make love she cries. She's really shy she doesn't talk much I'm the only one she talks to but half of the time she won't even tell me what's bothering her. It hurts me and the kids to see her so sad the bad thing is they're too young to understand what's going on. I'm not leaving her. How can I comfort her ?