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In reply to the discussion: Not sure if I can fight one more day. [View all]SheilaT
(23,156 posts)Once your husband showed his true colors, you owed him nothing.
Second, it seems that a lot of people are heavily invested in being ill. They get their identity from that. What's with that? How about choosing to identify with being healthy? Now there's an idea.
Here's something else. Do not tolerate a job that winds up paying you less than minimum, especially given that minimum wage is below poverty level. There really are other jobs out there. But too many of us have been brainwashed into thinking there simply isn't anything.
Or, and this is what REALLY makes me crazy, the idea that not a single person over the age of 50 has been able to find employment in the last few years.
Guess what? I'm 64, and I've been able to find work. After staying home for 25 years raising two children. They're not great jobs. They're not career positions. But I can survive.
Yes, it sucks totally that our economy is the way it is, what with the entire mortgage debacle, the bail-out of the banks, the incredible disparity of wealth, and the total trashing of the working class by people like Romney and Ryan who have never really worked a day in their lives.
Oh, and when the recent tape of Ryan talking about those whose income is from the government, I only want to ask, "What company did you say you worked for?" There's a man who has been sucking at the government teat his entire working life.
And quite honestly, remember the advice columnist who always said you need to ask yourself, are you better off with him or without him?