Felt judged for being a SAHW
Me and my husband are recently married and we live in a small town one where everyone knows everything about everybody and recently everyone in our age group is getting married then starting there coupled up friends group and for some reason a few people have taken it upon themselves to make everything a competition there so many examples I have I could write y’all a book 🤣 but a comment that was made to my husband yesterday kinda really bothered me. So his friend/co worker got a new truck and he’s going to get a paint job and some things upgraded and my husband made the comment man I wish I could afford to get a new truck and get all that done well a different coworker/friend said to my husband well if your wife made $45 an hour like ours you could I know it may seem harmless but it just didn’t sit right with me and let me give you some context/back story. I dropped out in 10th grade I was forced to live with drug addicts by my drug addict mother my priority was a job and money not school so I’ve always worked as a server or as managment in customer service flash forward I meet my husband who is a recovering addict he was full blown addict when we met all his friends besides the drug addicts abandoned him he had no car no job no place of his own and problems with the law but I seen his heart and potential and I showed him he had potential and purpose and he wanted to better himself he got clean he got a job he got a car and we got married. During his getting clean phase he rekindled with his relationship with his now coworkers who were just friends back then and I felt I was always viewed as some druggie girl he met cause he was on drugs when we got together and because everyone in this town when they see me they see my drug addict mother not the girl who survived drug addicts and never touched drugs. His friends literally told him he was stupid and crazy for wanting to marry me all because he met me on drugs none of them cared that I was the one to save him I was there for him and they were not. Now since we have been married I haven’t worked not because I can’t but because it is what works for us, my husband likes that I love being a house wife, seeing his face light up cause I cook and clean and wait on him makes me happy it’s my love language and since we only have one street safe vehicle at the moment it saves stress me being home we’ll all his friends partners work most of them in health care think blue collar husband and scrub wife situation you see on tik tok nowadays so when it comes to hanging out with his friends a lot of times the girls are working but I still go and unless I bring food or something cool and exciting to the hang out I get ignored and It feels like they all look at me like some clingy wife who won’t let her husband go hang with friends alone when that’s not the case most the time I don’t want to go cause I feel judged but my husband tells me all the time I’m his best friend he wants me there when he’s hanging with friends and when I do tell him no I don’t want to he comes home early cause he misses me. Does anyone else relate to this ? Or am I just overthinking everything?
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