I\u2019m Betty, a\u00a038-year-old housewife, and I\u2019ve been married to\u00a0Evan for eight years. He\u00a0has a\u00a012-year-old son from his previous marriage.Recently, Evan lost his well-paying job. His son attends a\u00a0private school, but with our current financial situation, we\u00a0can no\u00a0longer afford the tuition. Evan told me\u00a0he\u00a0wants to\u00a0sell our large house and move into a\u00a0smaller one so\u00a0that his son can continue at\u00a0the same school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He\u00a0said, \u201cMy\u00a0son\u2019s education comes first. I\u00a0don\u2019t want him to\u00a0miss out on\u00a0a\u00a0great future because of\u00a0me.\u201d <\/strong>I\u00a0didn\u2019t say anything\u2014I just smiled.The next day, his son came home in\u00a0tears, shivering.<\/strong> That\u2019s because\u00a0I had secretly withdrawn him from the expensive school.Although it\u2019s summer now, he\u2019s set to\u00a0start at\u00a0a\u00a0public school when the new academic year begins. He\u00a0apparently found out from another student whose parent works at\u00a0the school. When Evan learned what\u00a0I had done, he\u00a0just looked at\u00a0me\u00a0without saying a\u00a0word.<\/strong>The following day, I\u00a0froze when\u00a0I discovered that all my\u00a0belongings were packed in\u00a0boxes. Evan told me\u00a0we\u00a0were moving to\u00a0a\u00a0much cheaper place, and that\u00a0I had no\u00a0say in\u00a0the matter. As\u00a0for his son, Evan has already enrolled him in\u00a0a\u00a0different private school\u2014one that\u2019s also quite expensive.I\u2019m furious. Leaving behind my\u00a0beautiful home and the community I\u2019ve grown to\u00a0love for a\u00a0cramped apartment isn\u2019t what\u00a0I signed up\u00a0for when\u00a0I got married.<\/strong> I\u00a0feel totally betrayed and powerless.Am\u00a0I\u00a0the bad person for feeling this way?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019m Betty, a\u00a038-year-old housewife, and I\u2019ve been married to\u00a0Evan for eight years. He\u00a0has a\u00a012-year-old son from his previous marriage.Recently, Evan lost his well-paying job. His son attends… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":658,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions\/505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}