Should I relocate with my husband?

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I am a preschool teacher so I don’t even touch six figures. My husband is the main bread winner and he makes enough to pay all the bills by himself always felt his spouse should work & contribute but this is the 2nd time i’m put in a position where we may need to relocate. He unfortunately couldn’t stand his current work place he tried for months to make it work but couldn’t tolerate the disrespect anymore. I told my husband you know your spouse cannot work at all if we’re gonna keep relocating all the time. it isn’t right to do that to an employer. I moved with him to pennsylvania when we first started dating and it all worked out and now we’re married. But in PA I made significantly less and it was very hard to find jobs there. But I just started a new preschool job and I would feel terrible leaving after I just started and was introduced to all the parents. My husband said if he has to drive back in forth from NY to NJ he will until the school year is over but I just feel so awful him doing all that and i’ll be honest i’ll be sad my husband won’t be in my life as much anymore. I will feel like a single woman. idk what to do. part of me is thinking I need to just do what’s best for us as a couple financially but another part of me is saying i’m burning too many bridges with work & it’ll hurt my career completely. I know most will say from a today stand point omg no you shouldn’t solely rely on your husbands income but I trust him but I always worry that by me not contributing to our household in the future he can change and think less of me when it comes to any of our financial goals because I didn’t bring any money in. I watched as my dad did that to my mother as a stay at home mother. he throws it in her face all the time. But he did say if we relocate you don’t have to work.

Posted Aug 28, 2026, 7:54 AM UTC

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