My husband can't get a job and is learning to code, should I divorce him? (NYT)
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Date: April 5th, 2026 11:47 AM Author: Pope Leo XXX
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/business/my-husband-cant-get-a-job-should-i-divorce-him.html
Marriage vs. Unemployment
Dear Work Friend,
My husband is a very smart and capable person, but he became very sick in early 2020, and he has barely worked since then, despite tirelessly applying for positions. What can he do?
We recently moved so I could go to graduate school for music, but the stress of trying to make enough money to live on (even with help from my mom) has made it nearly impossible to focus and develop my skills. It’s literally ruining my life.
Currently he is doing an online master’s program in computer science, but I worry that this will not improve his prospects. I don’t really want to get divorced, but I think about it constantly. It’s just too hard trying to support two adults as a nonprofit administrator. I can’t live this way for the next 30-40 years.
Thanks for your help,
Anonymous
I nodded and winced with sympathy through the first two paragraphs of your letter as I thought about the pressures of chronic illness, unemployment and financial strain.
And then I got to the phrase “online master’s program in computer science.”
At this point I stopped nodding, cocked my head to the side, and squinted my eyes in an expression of polite bafflement — the “Tucker Carlson.” I think you are right to worry that this will not improve his prospects. “Learn to code” is no longer a panacea for the unemployed, if it ever was. The number of job openings for entry-level workers in the tech industry has been stagnant for a while, and a master’s alone is not going to help when every new job listing has thousands of applicants, especially given the long gaps in your husband’s résumé. A strong professional network might give him an edge, but it’s hard to form one at a grad program you attend from your living room.
But my real concern reading your letter is not simply that the online master’s program is probably a waste of time and money, but that your husband is using it to hide from responsibility for your finances and your relationship.
There are many very good and rigorous online degree programs, but there are also some whose practical function is to help students avoid the burdens of real life under the cover of productivity. I think it’s telling that you, the stably employed partner, are emailing me to solicit employment ideas, rather than your husband, who actually needs them.
So before you even get to doling out advice, you need to sit down with your husband and tell him that the stress you feel about money is making you miserable, and that you guys need to come up with a plan to mitigate your dread about the future. You will know the most diplomatic way to communicate your distress. But you need to be honest with him that the current situation is unsustainable for you, and he needs to be part of the solution.
I’m not saying your husband must quit his master’s program. But he should have a plan beyond graduating and heading to LinkedIn. At a minimum he should be seeking internships, soliciting informational interviews, attending meet-ups and other networking events, and doing whatever he can to build a portfolio, gain experience, and augment his chances at actually finding a job.
And he should probably be doing more than that, given your misery and exhaustion. Could he get a part-time job serving coffee, waiting tables, or stocking shelves to help ease the pressure you feel to provide for both of you? If he needs to stay at home, could he find remote work in fields like tutoring, editing, transcription or customer service? Or maybe something more oriented toward a future career in software, like QA testing, data entry, or freelance web design? Finally, if his illness is preventing him from finding work entirely, can he augment your income with disability payments?
The point of this conversation is not to fix your difficult problems overnight (it won’t), nor to permanently solve the eternal troubles of money, jobs and relationships (it can’t). It’s to ensure that the tasks of thinking, worrying, and doing something about these issues is shared between both of you.
To that end, if you can scrape together the resources, I would suggest that part of your plan involve couples’ counseling. If that’s out of reach, you should at the very least be setting deadlines and clarifying expectations, so that neither partner is operating under false assumptions about the other’s feelings or needs.
Unless you fix the dynamic that has you emailing advice columnists on behalf of your husband after working all day to support him, I worry that no amount of employment-seeking guidance will help.
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Date: April 5th, 2026 11:49 AM Author: Ass Sunstein
We recently moved so I could go to graduate school for music,
We recently moved so I could go to graduate school for music,
We recently moved so I could go to graduate school for music,
We recently moved so I could go to graduate school for music,
We recently moved so I could go to graduate school for music,
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Date: April 5th, 2026 11:49 AM Author: Pope Leo XXX
It’s just too hard trying to support two adults as a nonprofit administrator.
It’s just too hard trying to support two adults as a nonprofit administrator.
It’s just too hard trying to support two adults as a nonprofit administrator.
It’s just too hard trying to support two adults as a nonprofit administrator.
It’s just too hard trying to support two adults as a nonprofit administrator.
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Date: April 5th, 2026 1:16 PM Author: the word envy ceasing to exist (gunneratttt)
lol pathetic.
this guy should be a man do whatever it takes to support himself. taking perpetual handouts from your wifes family while you do online only classes because of your bs long covid would be so shameful for a real man that he'd rather doordash every waking hour of the day over accepting another cent.
ime people like you are universally excuse making losers who would rather seethe at everyone else than take responsibility for themselves. waaah waah waah my wife is neing so mean just because ive been unemployed for six years. lmao. both these people suck, but the dude massively sucks too and everyone woman in her right mind would not tolerate a pathetic leach.
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Date: April 5th, 2026 1:39 PM Author: hehehehe
Ah yes because the opinion of an obese mymasters shrew is, as ever, the true and accurate measure of a contemporary man’s worth!
It is because you think this way that you will still be bragging about your “dating app” exploits to internet strangers who don’t like you in ten years. Hope that helps!
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Date: April 5th, 2026 2:09 PM Author: hehehehe
Told our kids a bunch of lies about the Easter bunny, thanks for asking!
Date: April 5th, 2026 1:57 PM
Author: the word envy ceasing to exist (gunneratttt)
being swallowed by my lovely gf.
what did you and your wife and kids do today?
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Date: April 5th, 2026 11:57 AM Author: '"'''"'''""""
We recently moved so I could go to graduate school for music, but the stress of trying to make enough money to live on
We recently moved so I could go to graduate school for music, but the stress of trying to make enough money to live on
We recently moved so I could go to graduate school for music, but the stress of trying to make enough money to live on
We recently moved so I could go to graduate school for music, but the stress of trying to make enough money to live on
We recently moved so I could go to graduate school for music, but the stress of trying to make enough money to live on
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Date: April 5th, 2026 11:59 AM Author: Pope Leo XXX
I don’t really want to get divorced, but I think about it constantly.
I don’t really want to get divorced, but I think about it constantly.
I don’t really want to get divorced, but I think about it constantly.
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Date: April 5th, 2026 12:08 PM
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Date: April 5th, 2026 1:22 PM
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Date: April 5th, 2026 12:06 PM Author: cowgod
This is the thing that I always talk about. Libs “like” when certain things fail.
You would never hear libs call any degree a waste of time in 2000. PERIOD. But in 2026 a Nerd picking himself up by his bootstraps is a “waste of time” 😏 OYT is the biggest hypocrite in the world imo
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Date: April 5th, 2026 12:12 PM Author: Pope Leo XXX
its interesting that once the NYT columnist got to the "Online MS in CS" part, he was like "fuck this guy"
I nodded and winced with sympathy through the first two paragraphs of your letter as I thought about the pressures of chronic illness, unemployment and financial strain.
And then I got to the phrase “online master’s program in computer science.”
At this point I stopped nodding, cocked my head to the side, and squinted my eyes in an expression of polite bafflement
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Date: April 5th, 2026 12:17 PM
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Date: April 5th, 2026 1:27 PM
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Date: April 5th, 2026 1:27 PM
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Date: April 5th, 2026 12:59 PM Author: dbgisfaggot
i dont get why you ppl have wives except for children. the subtexts of all u fags upthread is you have to pay for the privilege of being nagged by a median 170.8-171.8 pound woman who will drop u the second u stop making it rain
the fuck are u doing
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Date: April 5th, 2026 1:03 PM Author: John Nordid
The level of pathetic faggotry in this thread is off the fucking charts
You people are all literally "Redpill Comics" cartoon caricature beta losers, siding with the "wife" and "columnist" who both need to be repeatedly raped until they instinctively do not speak unless spoken to by a male. This is like some kind of pseudo support group for beta dweebs whose only remaining measure of surrogate self worth is their ability to be beta provider slaves to some worthless female who despises them
One of the most pathetic threads on this board in a while
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Date: April 5th, 2026 1:23 PM
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Date: April 5th, 2026 1:37 PM Author: John Nordid
"...from this day forward, for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health..."
/thread
Marriage is either real or it isn't. It's a lifelong monogamous commitment to an individual, through thick and thin. The proper response to this woman bitching about her husband's temporary setback (while she uprooted the family to waste money on a fucking meme "degree" to satisfy her own selfish ego) and preparing to divorce him is telling her to shut the fuck up and follow her marriage vows and support her lifelong partner
It doesn't matter that it's "female nature" to ditch men once they are no longer instrumentally useful to her. My above comment about beating and raping her is only half kidding. Women never dared to think and act like this before the modern era where they were given artificial power over men to indulge their worst instincts. They never dared to because there were severe consequences for them if they did
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Date: April 5th, 2026 1:51 PM Author: the word envy ceasing to exist (gunneratttt)
for six years?
obese illegal 80iq spics manage to scrape by enough to provide for themselves.
if this guy was legitimately too sick to work he'd be on ssdi, and he wouldn't be training for future employment.
there's a CS bootcamp near me that takes retard dindus and gets them employed coding in six months. if this guy can't hack it in six years he should be digging ditches or working retail. he should be doing whatever he can to earn whatever he can. not farting around taking his wife's parent's money playing WoW between university of phoenix classes.
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Date: April 5th, 2026 2:10 PM Author: the word envy ceasing to exist (gunneratttt)
yes.
btw as per our subthread i am very sympathetic regarding systematic problems and how many men struggle to provide a decent life for themselves. my issue with this guy is there's no indication he struggled. and i don't buy that he was too sick to work considering he's ostensibly going to school to work.
if this guy was legitimately trying his best and failing id have nothing but sympathy for him, and condemn his wife for her selfishness. but my read on this is that he's slacking and his wife is at her wits end.
of course this is from the wifes POV and ime there's always more to a story. good chance im being too harsh on this guy because im making judgments with limited info. but my take is based on what info is available.
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Date: April 5th, 2026 1:54 PM Author: Pope Leo XXX
"...from this day forward, for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health..."
/thread
like so many ideals how realistic is this? would you similarly condemn a guy who cheats on his wife or divorces her for becoming a fat nagging cow?
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Date: April 5th, 2026 1:24 PM
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I would be more sympathetic if she was pragmatic and successful but she isn't.
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