The Husband was an Idiot

She was depressed and her husband helped her overcome it.

His pushing her was to help her recover as much as save her job.

I give my respect to those who have earned it; to everyone else, I'm civil.

I was grateful to the husband's pushing. She was giving up on everything. She felt alone, unwanted, useless. Through her husband's insistence, she could see her husband cared, she could see there were other people who cared. That would be helpful in fighting off depression. The ending scene in the cafeteria was heartwarming.

Instead of accepting defeat and lying in bed depressed, she went out and fought for something.

He didn't want her to just go lie in bed in a depressive state.

That's not being an idiot. That's actually being a loving and supporting husband. He wanted her to fight. That was great of him to do that.

Imagine having friends and family give you NO support and just let you give up???

Let us be crooked, but never common.

One of the most likable husbands portrayed that I've seen. He knows what's best for her and never stops loving her and helping her overcome her fear and depression. You are totally wrong.

"Doublethink. To deliberately believe in lies, while knowing they're false. Doublethink." Henry Barthes

But it was true that he didn't love her. You could tell. He wanted her to work because he alone couldn't provide for the family on his crappy job. Why couldn't he focus his time by working more hours or finding a better job instead of driving her around?

In regards to her, what a normal loving husband or supportive person would do is push them to find ANOTHER job, not fight for one which would clearly cause conflict amongst her colleagues. On top of that, it was making her more depressed doing what she was doing. Didn't she OD while she was 'begging'? Surely that was a major sign for the husband to stop pushing her.

He was an idiot because he didn't listen and also how he was going about forcing her to knock on all these people's doors. It's embarrassing and demeaning.

What she said was so true (and would have definitely happened if she did accept the job back) is that the other half of the company who voted against her returning would look at her with resentment. Yet he brushed that away because it wasn't him who had to show up for that work.

There were other things like making her wait outside a cafe for someone - and lets be honest, she was begging - as well as causing a punch up.

Who could work in that environment after all this?

Income loss is Hell on a relationship. That was shown. Viewers can approve or not but the film did convey the stress the job loss was putting on the marriage. Film clearly depicted the lives of people who work but live from paycheck to paycheck. They aren't poverty stricken but car payments, school tuition, decent housing eat it all up. This is serious drama of our times that most films ignore since the filmmakers have no understanding of this kind of living. If you don't think twice about a purchase at Starbucks you don't get it. As a former Union member the lobbying efforts and vote counting, the unexpected allies and friends who are on your side, the huge play of personalities, as well as those who will never be on your side, were completely realistic.