Leaving aside the existential questions which I have no answer to, I think your partner should take some time off, whether paid or unpaid. There are questions s

Leaving aside the existential questions which I have no answer to, I think your partner should take some time off, whether paid or unpaid. There are questions she needs to work through about what she wants, and it's hard to do that when you're still "inside the beast" -- you need some space away from it to make things clear. Once she gets back from her time off, she'll get to the more practical side of things. Companies retain employees for even tedious labor because of labor supply and demand forces. Those forces are strong enough in the direction of labor for certain technical vocations that labor has the advantage. For others, the reverse is sometimes true. You may be seeing that play out in action right now.