Man, it kills me to see my unemployed wife so depressed.....

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She got laid off last November, which despite being an ego blow ended up being a good thing. We've always been financially conservative so we can live on my salary. Plus with my daughter having just turned 1 at the time it was a great opportunity for my wife to be home with her and also to accelerate finishing her MBA which she'll be done with in a few months. So even though she's bee looking and sending in resumes and been on a few interviews it hasn't been a dire situation.

But just seeing her get depressed at not getting any calls, or (as just happened yesterday) seeing her go on an interview that she thought she nailed at a great company close to home, only to check on line and see that company posting the job again only 2 weeks later.

This is her first experience in a bad economy/job market so I try and tell her not to take it personally but it's really hard. And it kills me for her to start thinking that it's some kind of flaw in her that is causing this stuff to happen (or not happen as it were).

And she's even been told by HR people she's interviewed with that most of the people in the departments that are hiring at a lot of these companies know that the job market is bad so rather than hiring someone with 90% of the qualifications for the job, they decide that they can hold out for a few more weeks and somebody with 100% of what they are looking for comes along.

I just hate to see her beating herself up over stuff that is beyond her control.