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After almost 28 years of marrige my wife told me on New Year's day that she was fed up with me and was leaving me. The reason she gave me was my lack of providing for the family, and she is right. I have had a series of jobs, and at times was unemployed in the last several years and I accept the blame for this. However, I love my wife completely, have never had an affair, and am totally devastated with this news. I need someone th help me in reassuring her that I can and will change my working habits. Please give any advice you can for a totally broken hearted man.

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If you don't have job now. Get one and work hard at it. If you have a job, work hard at it.

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Michael, Engineer_Bob is exactly right. Now is not the time for reassurances (which your wife has probably heard many times before). Now is the time for you to change. Get a job, keep the job. Go to the job on time, work hard. Get promoted. If you don't have the skills to do this, go find them WHILE you're getting the job. She's made it very clear that's what you need to do, so go do it!


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