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When Bankruptcy Threatens Your Sense of Identity as a Provider

My wife and I are about to lose our house and she keeps saying we will figure it out together but I feel like such a failure as a man that I can barely look at her anymore.

Zera
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Economic failure becomes entangled with fundamental questions of self-worth and gender role fulfillment.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Bankruptcy — the philosophy and the process?”

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