{"id":54159,"date":"2025-03-08T06:09:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T06:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=54159"},"modified":"2025-03-08T06:09:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T06:09:50","slug":"if-you-think-we","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=54159","title":{"rendered":"\u2018If You Think We>>>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"330\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-391.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-391.png 512w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-391-300x193.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My life is a nightmare. I\u2019m 40, and I\u2019m the only one bringing in the money. I literally work myself into the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After yet another brutal shift, I went to the garage, begging my husband to get a job. His response sent a chill down my spine: \u201cIF YOU THINK WE NEED TWO INCOMES, GO GET A SECOND JOB.\u201d That was the wake-up call I needed. The next day, I stopped doing everything. I went to work, came home, and did nothing\u2014no cooking, cleaning, or laundry. When dinner didn\u2019t show up, Greg asked, \u201cWhat\u2019s for dinner?\u201d I calmly replied, \u201cI don\u2019t know. What are you making?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mess piled up. By the third day, Greg started to get annoyed and demanded, \u201cWhat\u2019s going on?\u201d I told him, \u201cYou should probably do something about that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After a week, Greg had no clean clothes and was overwhelmed. Finally, he snapped. I looked him in the eye and said, \u201cYou\u2019ve been doing nothing while I work myself to death. And until you show me otherwise, I\u2019m done.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next morning, Greg was in the kitchen, loading the dishwasher. A few weeks later, he got a job. It wasn\u2019t perfect, but he was finally stepping up. Sometimes, people need a wake-up call to realize they\u2019ve been selfish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=54124\">ALSO READ&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My life is a nightmare. I\u2019m 40, and I\u2019m the only one bringing in the money. I literally work myself into the ground. After yet another brutal&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54161,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54159\/revisions\/54161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/54160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}