The Intre­pid Mom­pre­neur left a big law firm after 3 years to launch her own busi­ness; has left a mar­riage with two kids; and walked away from her own mil­lion dol­lar a year law busi­ness. Now she’s telling us how to know when it’s time to leave:

  1. The pain of stay­ing is greater than the poten­tial pain of leaving
  2. You are stay­ing for the other per­son because it makes them happy (or you believe it does)
  3. The pain you are avoid­ing by not leav­ing is the guilt you’ll feel by leaving
  4. You’ve resigned your­self to a life with­out sex and decided your kids’ hap­pi­ness is more impor­tant than your sex life
  5. You are stay­ing because you “should” be happy, but you aren’t.

In 4, sub­sti­tute “sex” and “kids’ hap­pi­ness” for some­thing more fit­ting to the sit­u­a­tion you’re con­sid­er­ing. The rest, I would keep the same.