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Hello, I am writing this whilst I try and make an extremely important decision about my marriage. Firstly understand that I love my wife so very much and it is be quad of that, that I am here. Some quick back story. I don't have many friends which is part of the reason I am here as I don't have anyone to turn too. My wife and I have been married a few years and we have had a few ups and downs as would be expected and we've always worked through them and up until this weekend things have been good. I've always had a problem with money, not gambling or anything like that. I'm just very very bad with it and it tends to just disappear and I have no idea where it goes. I always put money where it needs to go first like bills account and into my car as fuel so I can get to and from work. Anyways, my overspending crept further and further into my overdraft until it reached the end and has crept over a few times, all the while my wife has been unaware as I don't know how to talk about money or even my feelings (something my ex basically beat out of me). We went to get a mortgage yesterday morning and it was declined due to the fact that I am basically living in my overdraft. My wife has found out how far I am overdrawn and doesn't trust me anymore(rightfully so) but also in the process I have managed to mess everything else up and affect a whole lot of other people financially. My wife said she wants to seriously consider divorce, I don't want to but I've messed up so badly and messed up her and others lives on such a monumental scale that I don't think we would ever be able to recover from it, I also don't want to keep making things worse for her. I seriously considered just packing my car full of stuff and running away but I know that's a very cowardly thing to do but then so is everything else I've done up until now, but I still don't want to just end it. I've already said that I struggle massively talking about feelings and well everything. I'm finding it difficult to write this as this must be my 6th draft. My question is this: What do I do? What would you do?

Help me, please

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Stay with your wife and work the extra job. Give her control of finances. Let her put you on an allowance. Tell her how you feel. Set a day to talk about finances and do it out of the house. The rest of the time you do not pollute your house with it.

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