Hi
Just need some of your views or if you weren in my situation what would you do?
OK, I’m 23 and I’m aslo married with a 10 month old son. My partner is 26 and we’ve been together for 3 years. Since we got married and had a baby our finances have really shot straight down, I’m not a person who likes being in dept (well I guess no one likes to be in debt) but from the past 2 years we’ve accumilated so much debt that It’s starting to freak me out, I don’t blame my wife or my son as we were spending it all together
We both come from different countries and living in the UK, the probem I’ve got is I’m getting tired of working and having just enough money to pay the bills and groceries and have nothing left after a week I get paid. We live in a nice flat but also expensive too.
So I came up with a suggestion to my wife that we move somewhere cheaper or share a house with mybe another couple so we can sort out our finances and atleast start saving as we have absolutey no savings but she crushed both the ideas, I ask her what are we going to do and she never answers as she doesn’t know.
I would like to go back home next year to start a business that I’ve been thinking alot about, and I feel that I need to start sorting things out NOW, pay off all the debts, save up some money, get the things I’l need and head off, she kinda likes the idea but I can tell she not really 100% sure.
So a few weeks ago I asked if she could go back to her moms house back in Europe for atleast 4 months so I can rent a single room, sell my car as I can cycle to work (can’t sell now due to having the baby), and just basically live hard for that time just to get rid of the debt and atleast have some money in the bank for both us, my son and the future. At the moment I can’t even think clearly because I’m with my boy everyday after work as she works evenings at a restaurant plus I’ve got a few courses I’m doing and have no time to study aswell. But the wife insits that she doesn’t want to separate, even if we send our boy to live with my wife’s mom, she’ll never share a house with anyone.
I have alot of things that I feel they need sorting out plus my dream of starting that business after I finish my studies, but I kinda feel that I’m being held back by my wife. If I was on my own I would have probaly achieved quite alot as I had before I met her. Now I’m just stuck because I’m always trying to make her and my son happy and It’s so difficult as I feel I can’t make these choices alone. My wife has no abitions no dreams and no goals and I’m also scared to leave her.
I’ve explained that I need the time alone and start planning ahead, I also need time to find mysef again and all I need is 4 to 6 months alone with occational visits ofcourse, then when they come back we’ll have a fresh start.
But everytime I bring this issue up we end up in an argument and the mode just changes. She is comfortable at the moment but I’ve said she needs to think about the future, In this current economic crisis alot of people are loosing their jobs, and If something happens with mine, I don’t think we’ll even survive for a month.
So what do you guys think I should do? Should we carry on living like this and hopefully things will come right, I can’t force here to go to her mom’s, should I give her a month to come up with a saving plan, or should we separate so I can do what I need to do and for her to realise she’s not living the dream yet?