Thanks @Brian GibbonsNobody likes my advice on these though, lol.Being broke with bad credit is a symptom of our priorities.Look around - fancy coffee and restaurant/fast food/bar remnants? 

I'll add 2 symptoms of financial stress in a seller.  

What is the extent of the problem, not just the exposed symptom of the problem?

@Kevin Branin - could also be a diabetic.

I never had any symptoms it was caught looking at why I had a lingering cough. 

(Given the syringes left inside one of them, they were either diabetic or drug users....)

It doesn’t sound like it.You have a relationship problem, and when it comes to relationships, the symptoms are often not too close to the causes.No one here can know enough about your relationship to diagnose the root of your wife’s unhappiness, but I doubt it’s real-estate.

You fix the problem by treating the root cause, not the symptoms.

If my understanding of the world, my affliction, was diabetes, then podcasts and the recommended books of how to escape “the rat race” was insulin.

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