My wife doesn’t understand it when I tell her that I can’t afford something.
She calls me cheap and tells me that I just don’t want to buy it for her. Then she will pout for a while until I finally deliver in. The last couple of months she had been complaining about the gas furnace in the house. I knew that the two of us needed a new gas furnace and I was waiting to find a single that the two of us could afford. She told me that she didn’t want just any kind of gas furnace, but she wanted radiant heating for the house. I looked into radiant heating when I first started looking for new heating for the house. I knew there was no way the two of us were going to be able to afford to purchase this style of heating. After 2 weeks of hearing her constant nagging about radiant heating, I broke. I told her that the two of us couldn’t afford it on just my salary. I left my wife guess that if she was willing to get out of the house and get a job, the two of us may be able to afford radiant heating. I knew she was miserable at me because she walked away without saying a word. My wife was a school grad and she had her master’s in teaching. I understood her wanting to be cabin when the twins were pre-school, however now they were in seventh grade. Two weeks later, she told me that she had gotten a job teaching in the same school our girls were in. At the moment it was upgrade, but she was pretty much guaranteed steady work since none of the teachers had had any personal time off in more than numerous years.