If there is a technology disruptive enough, we’ll hear this again. That also means we need the private equities, hedge funds, and megacorporations to wane and wan. With their financial chokehold on nearly everything, our cultures and most innate perceptions of the world will suffer.

I’m also not saying that your situation is the same. I know I have some bad habits around emotional regulation. Anything you can do to collaborate on a plan to establish stress-relieving activities (for you and for her!) and make an effort towards equity will do so much to help her feel loved.

Eight years is a long time to be alone in a relationship where your spouse is always emotionally regulating and you are completely alone with your shared responsibilities. I am grateful for myself and my ex that all of our attempts at pregnancy ended in miscarriage. No child deserves that.

This is a major reason why I left my longest relationship. He would disappear into a closet to read.
Chores to do together? Reading.
Groceries need to come in? Reading.
Lawn needs mowing? Reading.
Keys are missing? Reading.
Spouse needs to be transported to ER? Reading.