Boyfriend Doesn’t Understand Teaching
I am a female 32, dating a male 30. I’ve been dating this guy for five years. Every year around the time of report cards and parent conferences, he always accuses me of changing the way that I act and cheating on him. He doesn’t understand how stressful it is to do report cards and to do parent conferences the first time every year. It’s a HUGE stressor for me. This year is the worst out of any in the past. He has sworn for the past three months that I’m seeing someone behind his back and that I changed completely and I’m not the person that I was last summer. But the truth is when I had report cards and parent conferences. He wasn’t supportive of me, and since then I just haven’t felt loving at all towards him. Every year, I feel like he doesn’t support me and I’m just left to deal with the stress all on my own. And to make things worse, he doesn’t even have a full-time day job. He just sits at home all day because his job doesn’t require him to go to work or to put in any actual effort. Are there guys out there that actually care about the work that teachers put in or understand it?
I’m at the point where I’m seriously considering leaving the relationship. I can’t take our relationship to the next level (marriage, and kids) because his work is not dependable. I feel like I never know whether or not he’s going to have enough money in the future.
And even more I’ve been considering going back to school to get my masters degree so that I can make more money in the teaching field. But I feel like if I even choose to do that, he’s going to then accuse me even more of cheating because I’ll be even busier. Am I the asshole for not being as loving as I used to be? I’m tired..