Partner genuinely feels like he’s trying his best but it’s not working.
My partner (35m/dx/rx) works very part time from home while I work long hours out of the house. The vast majority of our income comes from me, but I don’t make enough money to comfortably support us both. He hasn’t worked full time in years now. He’s had project ideas that haven’t worked out or other part time jobs briefly but that’s it. I bring up the issues of how I feel overburdened (financially and household labor) and although he’s been doing marginally better with the household labor, he has not done anything to try to make more money despite me essentially begging. He tearfully claims he is legitimately trying his best and he doesn’t have any more time or capacity to do more. He says he needs help and nobody helps him because he’s alone all day. I know I should not try to run his life but I don’t know what else to do? I do feel like he is trying, just not in a way that’s working for us whatsoever. He’s tried therapy in the past and they give him ideas that he just never follows up on.