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Wife is constantly negative (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by BigBadIrishSir@alien.top to c/entrepreneur@indiehackers.space

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So like the title says, I have creative ideas and always try to include my wife in discussions, but all she ever brings to the table is problems and negativity when we discuss things. She thinks she's being "pragmatic" but it's tremendously disheartening and the problems she imagines are always the absolute worst of the worst case scenarios. Everything I've ever read or watched when it comes to starting businesses is, just start and figure out the problems later. I'm well aware of the potential for difficulties in any endeavor, but tend to believe in myself and my ability to adapt and overcome. Has anyone else experienced this? How did you find middle ground, if at all?

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[–] alexmancinicom@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Have you considered that you are living in different places in time?

Some people often think about the past, some people are really in the present, and some people live in the future.

You seem like the type of person who lives in the future, imagining scenarios and how you would overcome them. So you're starting from the success point and reverse engineering the solution.

She might be living more in the present, thinking about how to go from this moment to what you want to achieve. That leads to her thinking about problems and what's unrealistic from today's perspective.

Try to not see this as her not believing in you. She wouldn't give you her opinion if she didn't care. See it as another perspective and try to use it to your advantage, but you are the one that needs to believe in yourself in the first place. If you truly did, it wouldn't affect you that much to write a post on Reddit.