My life has been slowly falling apart for years and I am at my wits end. I am a mother to 4 young children, I was lucky to become a stay at home mom for a majorty of their lives but didn't realize the life I was told we would have would blow up in my face. My husband works out of state, visits maybe once every few months. When he comes home it is "his vacation" and he is not to lift a finger or have any responsibilities. The work I put in to make sure I have a happy, stable home on top of chores, errands, schools, the mental load of 5 extra people has been... draining to put it lightly. I have no village. I've been totally kept in the dark about finances until I started to dig into it all myself- what I found was crushing. All the while I have been in one state trying my hardest to penny pinch and just make ends meet my husband somehow "missed" a 40k discrepancy from his salary for the year. I fear he had been lying to me for years. Thank you for listening, my characters ran out 😭