“Become a hermit, fish/hunt/plant&harvest for food, yeah, I think about that. But the wife & kids keep that from being a real choice. “
Maybe when the kids grow up.
I’ve been pushing my husband to live a simpler, self-sufficient lifestyle for years now. I planted the seed and he’s finally decided he’s tired to working to support this fascist country. We don’t need ‘stuff’ all that much.
Long ways for that. We took in a relative's child after her Mom abandoned her. So now I've got one starting college and one starting kindergarten this fall (and one in between).
I have been trying to get my wife to realize happiness does not correlate to how much stuff a person owns.
We have a second home (fully paid) in the north woods of a northern state and we have the resources to live a comfortable but scaled back lifestyle there. My wife refuses to do so at this time so we are both cought up in this infernal rat race.
I sure hope I can soon convince her to let go.