meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
The Bert Show

From The Vault: Should His Wife Sacrifice Her Career For The Family?

The Bert Show

The Bert Show

News, Comedy, Entertainment News, Society & Culture

4.14.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Should his wife sacrifice her career for the sake of the family? We share our advice for this complicated issue!




Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Listen, it's the bird show.

0:02.1

As I understand it, with any healthy relationship, they are built on compromise.

0:08.6

One person's compromising, the other one's happy, then it goes back and forth like that, right?

0:12.7

So what if the compromise means that one person in the relationship pretty much has to give up their life for the other person's dream?

0:19.5

Now you've got problems.

0:20.6

That's what our email is about here.

0:22.2

Dear Bird Show, I need your help.

0:24.7

I have my dream job, my career job in the palm of my hands.

0:28.8

My dream job is to be in law enforcement.

0:31.4

The job that I am currently at pays decent, but in order to make the move to my dream job,

0:37.1

some sacrifices have to be made.

0:39.3

My wife would have to quit her job to stay at home to be with the kids.

0:43.7

We're not financially stable yet, but we are working on it.

0:47.2

In four months, my daughter will have her first birthday.

0:50.2

My mother-in-law is living with us, and she complains every time we ask her to watch the kids.

0:55.6

So that is why my wife would have to quit her job.

0:59.2

I want to take the job, but I feel like the right thing is to be responsible and let my dream job slip away.

1:06.0

Please, Bert Joe, I need your help on what to do.

1:10.4

Sincerely confused. Way to hit that all caps,

1:12.8

babe. Thank you. If you guys want to play therapists here, 1-855 Birchow. This one's tricky here,

1:19.2

because I'm just looking into the future here and the opportunity for resentment is high

1:24.9

on one end or the other here. So here he starts like if he gives up this,

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Bert Show, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Bert Show and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.