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You're right. What you're doing is not sustainable.

Your wife has stayed with you through 84 hour work weeks, a car crash, brain damage, and pills. All indications are that she's an amazing woman and that you're lucky to have her.

So, do what your wife wants. Stop worrying about entrepreneurship. Just... do whatever she wants. She's much more important than any business you've ever had, have now, or could have in the future.



She is an amazing woman: My wife knows me well enough to know that entrepreneurship is part of who I am, and that I'm miserable without it. I tried to give it up - we moved to the beach and I focused on surfing. We moved to the country and I focused on farming. Both times I got extremely bored and wound up working on a startup.

Giving up who I am is not a good basis of a marriage. Thats why I talk about changing things so that they are sustainable.




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