Struggling with what to do.

My partner has hit a rough spot, and is very rarely happy any more. I'm not saying he's never happy, but it definitely isn't very often he is. I don't know how to help, because he doesn't know what's wrong other than being unhappy.

I think part of it may be a longing to move back to where he grew up, because he has mentioned it before. And I would love to, but then I'd never get out and it would cause problems for my mental health. He grew up in a tiny little village in the middle of nowhere. The only things there are a school, a pub, and a tiny little shop where you can buy bread, milk, and snack food. Which would sound wonderful to me, but I can't drive and there are only 3 buses (4 hours apart) that go through - which wouldn't be any good because our oldest would be in school. We can't afford for me to learn to drive at the moment because I'm a SAHM for our 2 boys and even if we could afford the driving lessons, we wouldn't be able to afford to have 2 cars running.

I don't know how else to help him, if we did move, I'm sure I'd be able to make some friends at some point through the school run or something, but to start off with I would be pretty much completely alone, especially with the hours my partner works 😣

I don't know where I was going with this, but sometimes it helps to write things out so they're not clogging up your mind.