My Wife sometimes seems unable to accept sacrifice, She wants X, but won’t accept giving up anything to have it, and won’t accept the lessor Y. It doesn’t matter if it’s money, time or energy that’s lacking, she just can’t do it sometimes – the most maddening thing is that with other things she can be so massively determined she makes really tough things like gaining a degree or passing some horribly complex course in work look easy..
Sometimes I worry there’s a deep-seated issue, her Mum died before I met her but, reading between the lines she expected her husband (Wife’s Dad) to provide everything for her, she’s bully and cajole him into providing a big house, fancy cars, holidays etc – until the day when his business collapsed – probably because he sucked too much money out. When we first lived together she’d ask if we could do something or other and I’d always say yes – I’m the type of person who thinks he can do anything if you’re prepared to work for it – but for whatever reason it didn’t happen and there would be hell to pay “but you promised” like we were 10 or something. Now I don’t promise anything, I just say “we’ll try”.