Good husband/marriage?

[Jake823]

Hi this is my first post. I have a question to Catholics. I am currently working in the oilfield for 2 weeks at a time away from home. I feel its putting a strain on our marriage. I make good money and my wife might get layed off as a teacher at home in Texas. Should i quit and get a lower paying job to be home every night to be a good husband or should I stay at work and make more money to support us better? Any help woyld be appreciated. Thanks.

 

[Scoobyshme]

Hi this is my first post. I have a question to Catholics. I am currently working in the oilfield for 2 weeks at a time away from home. I feel its putting a strain on our marriage. I make good money and my wife might get layed off as a teacher at home in Texas. Should i quit and get a lower paying job to be home every night to be a good husband or should I stay at work and make more money to support us better? Any help woyld be appreciated. Thanks.

Life is not about money. Neither is marriage. One day, sooner than you can imagine, you’ll be retired in a nursing home. What will you do? Share pictures of your past pay stubs with the other residents? Or pictures of your “family” that you created, nurtured, and loved. And who do you want to come visit you? Your family or the IRS to thank you for long years of big contributions (not gonna happen)?

Let’s get our values straight. God, family, job, everything else. Not Job, family, God, everything else. Then, a lot of other good things fall in place. We in the U.S. have raised our standard of living too high. We spend all our time working to buy things, and all our free time fixing and maintain the “things” we bought. We have become slaves to materialism. Live below your income. Save for a rainy day. Learn to live with less. And enjoy your family and bring help each other toward heaven! You’ll never regret it and you’ll live a great, happy, peaceful life!

 

[Scoobyshme]

Hi this is my first post. I have a question to Catholics. I am currently working in the oilfield for 2 weeks at a time away from home. I feel its putting a strain on our marriage. I make good money and my wife might get layed off as a teacher at home in Texas. Should i quit and get a lower paying job to be home every night to be a good husband or should I stay at work and make more money to support us better? Any help woyld be appreciated. Thanks.

Life is not about money. Neither is marriage. One day, sooner than you can imagine, you’ll be retired in a nursing home. What will you do? Share pictures of your past pay stubs with the other residents? Or pictures of your “family” that you created, nurtured, and loved. And who do you want to come visit you? Your family or the IRS to thank you for long years of big contributions (not gonna happen)?

Let’s get our values straight. God, family, job, everything else. Not Job, family, God, everything else. If we get our priorities straight, and live that way, a lot of other good things fall in place. We in the U.S. have raised our standard of living too high. We spend all our time working to buy things, and all our free time fixing and maintain the “things” we bought. We have become slaves to materialism. Live below your income. Save for a rainy day. Learn to live with less. And enjoy your family and bring help each other toward heaven! You’ll never regret it and you’ll live a great, happy, peaceful life!

 

[Fan_of_Francis]

Hello Jake,

Have a look at sensustraditionis.org

Select the Multimedia tab
Under the heading Holiness Retreat you will see a sub title of Discerning God’s will. This audio may (especially around 9:00 minute mark. Hint,hint) may be assistance to you.
You and yours will be in my prayers.

 

[ready]

Praying that you can find a job that allows you time to spend with your family. May you be assured that being with your family is better than having many good possessions. May you be able to have a fruitful family life with a job that pays enough to support a simple life. Amen.

 

[Jake823]

I would like to thank all of you for your replies they were really helpful. I now know what needs to be done and now I am going to do what God intends for me to do. Pardon my ignorance, I’m just now learning God’s love through religion unfortunately. I was also raised Baptist so as a new Catholic, I still have a lot to learn. God Bless.