We’ve been struggling financially for several years now. We’re small business owners and am a full time homeschooling mother of 3. My husband is working countless hours trying to grow our business as well as juggling several other sources of income. We’re on food stamps, affording our mortgage gets very tight some months and we haven’t been able to begin paying back my in-laws for money they have lent us. My husband is always saying that the business is growing and we’re making progress and things are working and he’s always trying to be positive. But today I felt very overwhelmed and overstimulated and tired of this constant struggle. I voice to him pretty bluntly the reality of our situation, which is what I stated above. Unfortunately my words absolutely deflated my husband. I feel strongly convicted that as his partner and wife, I know I need to encourage an uplift him and although everything I said is true, I feel terrible for deflating his spirit and making him feel bad. What I said was not received well and I truly feel terrible and I don’t know if I’m wrong or if I’m not.