Unemployment Threatens Ties That Bind

Career woes can drive loving couples apart.
You vowed to stick together "in sickness and in health," but how about when one of you gets the corporate ax? Money woes and layoffs bring out the worst in us and in our relationships, according to Dr. Henry Paul, MD, a Manhattan-based psychiatrist and author. "Our net worth is directly tied to our self worth. As it drops, people get humiliated by having to ask others for money or to receive public assistance. Self loathing increases and this hate is often taken out on a spouse or those closest to us," he says.

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