Curling Bro, I feel your pain. My old lady and I just went through a similar thing. In July my old lady and I both got laid off. We worked at the same lab and they were downsizing. I was planning to put in my 2 week notice that same day anyways, so I didn't care, but my wife didn't have anything else lined up. I started my own business and as such I have been putting in some pretty hefty hours ever since. I get into work around 6:30am and I don't get home until 7 or 8pm Monday through Friday and sometimes on Saturdays. There is just a lot of shit to do when you are starting a business. My wife on the other hand, decided that she wanted to be a bum for a while. I was fine with that because I was making enough money to support us. Well, now it's September and she still doesn't have a job. All she does all day long is watch CSI, Oprah and shit like that. When she does leave the house, she just spends money on things like new ends tables and curtains and shit. Again, I was okay with this for a while until she bascially stopped doing anything around the house cleaning-wise. When she first got laid off she said that it would be kinda fun because she always wanted to be a stay at home mom. Well, I share custody of my daughter with my ex, but she is going to school now, so there really isn't any mothering for my wife to do. So she said she would take care of the house while I was at work. Now I didn't just start acting like a slob or anything, I continued to do things as I did before. But she just stopped doing anything around the house. She would cook awesome meals for herself during the day and then expect me to cook supper for myself and do the dishes from the whole day when i got home from work. So we have gotten into a few fights about it. I told her that if she wants to be a stay at home wife, then she needs to do the things a stay at home wife is supposed to do. If she doesn't want to do these things, she needs to get a job. We can't afford to live off my income alone if she is just blowing the money away every day. So I am in the same boat in a way and I don't know what to do eiter.