Husband has anxiety, need help to cope.

TheDailyGrind
Community Member

My husband of just a year has anxiety, he does not leave the house unless forced. He stays at home all day and plays video games. This leaves me as the sole provider in our family as well as the person who does most of the housework and all the cooking, I am so stressed out all the time, I’m not sleeping properly and I worry about everything.

My job is not secure, I’m employed casually and I have no guarantee of employment next year. His suggestion is that I find more work and that stresses me out even more. He says he can’t work and will not seek any therapy, he’s hoping for a magic pill to make the anxiety go away.

I dont know what to do, am I a monster for feeling so stressed out and thinking he should at least try to get some part time work to help the finances. I’m just not coping right now and I fear we will lose our house, the house I worked hard for before I met him. I feel like I’m coping worse than him right now.

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Hi again,

I am a little concerned that you make be taken for granted in this relationship.

I certainly don't know your situation so please excuse me if I am wrong here, I just wonder if your husband is hiding his financial situation from you.

If raises questions that if he can't receive a pension from his home country, then he must have a reasonable amount of money somewhere.

Yes, we have a right to keep our finances to ourselves, but not when one person in the relationship is doing all the working and paying and the other is not willing to be transparent.

There is such a thing as Financial Abuse! Hope you are okay!

Cheers from Dools