As a part-time working wife at best, I lived a cushy lifestyle. Never worried about a bill being paid, and never was the grocery cart less than stacked high. Vacations were several a year. I wanted for nothing.
Except...
An emotionally "present" partner. My feelings acknowledged and respected. My self-esteem, which was missing, gone, poof, and the usual emotionally twisted stuff.
I left a cushy 6 figure lifestyle.
I am poor now, to some people's assessment, if simple finances were the only way we measure poverty.
I think I was poorer then. I was depressed and despondent.
I will stand on my own two feet. I will respect myself that way. I will not feel needy or dependent just to survive.
But, my situation is different from a couple of you--as in my kids had left home by the time I left.
Just don't sell yourself short. You gauge what that would be.