I’m in the fortunate position that I could tell my chronically ill spouse to just not work.
Took them literally years to work through the guilt of not working, the capitalist conditioning of work being your source of value was so strong.
Of all the things I’ve accomplished in my life, knowing that my beautiful, creative, loving spouse gets to spend their days not being crushed by the capitalist machine is my most cherished.
American here - we’re conditioned from birth to think not working as hard as possible to make money for somebody else is lazy.
I’m in the fortunate position that I could tell my chronically ill spouse to just not work.
Took them literally years to work through the guilt of not working, the capitalist conditioning of work being your source of value was so strong.
Of all the things I’ve accomplished in my life, knowing that my beautiful, creative, loving spouse gets to spend their days not being crushed by the capitalist machine is my most cherished.