Carl isn’t happy in his job—it’s boring, he doesn’t particularly like his coworkers, and especially his supervisor, who is a micromanager—but he has a pension and a couple of kids that he’d like to put through college. He feels trapped.

Jodi, too, feels trapped; not in a job but in her marriage. She and her husband have little in common, are living parallel lives, and his occasional but explosive bouts of anger keep her walking on eggshells. But she is only working part-time, and literally can’t afford to leave, nor does she know where she would go.

Trapped: Stuck at the bottom of a well where you can see the sky but can’t get out. The feeling readily leads to depression, a why-bother-it-doesn’t matter-there’s-nothing-you-can-do attitude. You hate the feeling, but........

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