When Life Is Hard, Don't Make Your Spouse Pay for It

Send us Fan MailMaybe your relationship isn't broken. Maybe you're just exhausted.Sometimes life gets so heavy that the person you love most ends up getting what's left of you.You held it together at work.You were patient with the kids.You answered everyone's questions.You handled the bills.You solved everyone else's problems.And then you come home...and your spouse gets the short answers, the irritation, the silence, the withdrawal.Not because you don't love them.Because you have nothing left.Your exhaustion may explain your behavior.It doesn't give you permission to hurt the person who didn't cause it.Your spouse can be your safe place without becoming your punching bag.You don't have to pretend you're okay.You just have to learn how to let your partner stand beside you in the hard season instead of making them pay for it.Because there will be hard seasons.Sometimes you don't need a different person. You need the two of you to remember that you're on the same side.Support the show