31 July 2010, 3:47 pm
My husband and I have been together for 3 years and have a 5 month old...he was laid off in 2008 and hasn't found a decent job yet, and my cna can't even get me a job above minimum wage. His family is here and mine is in Nebraska. My family has offered to move us to Nebraska, pay first months rent and utilities, I can work as a cna in an agency for 15-20 an hour and he would be able to walk into a job making 8 an hour, and if our shifts overlapped my mother would watch our child so we wouldn't have to pay daycare. We have a lot of debt here and I know that by moving we could get ahead and catch things up....HE SAYS HE WILL CONSIDER IT...but as fast as he tells me that he says we aren't moving, I (he) don't want to and I am the husband so I get the final say...what do you do? I don't want to lose him but I am tired of not being able to get out of this hole of debt and not be able to see the light of day. I would like to give my son a better life...we live in Grand Rapids and I would rather have our son living in a small town where he would be someone not just a number in a classroom or a face in the crowd....what do you do???... Read More »