[Ak47]

I also believe marriage isn't always about passion... i'm pretty young but a firm believer about this. In this day and age there are too many other factors to consider in marriage than passion- that is, if you want to live satisfied, content, or happy.

Financial situations are always an important aspect of marriage.

You can't start your own homebusiness without your own capitol to invest, and it's a general rule in business that you always put ALL of the money you earned back into the business for the first 6 months that it's operating. Most people can't afford to do this, thus the businesses fail.

For starters, i might suggest that you have him get some sort of theraputic help AND/or medicated. I'm not much for meds myself, but they do help some people.

I've had problems with laziness myself, but i'm generally strong in overcoming my problems because i've been through some troubles and i'm pretty good at problem solving. So, i'm -slowly- overcoming my demotivation.

You might suggest to him that he becomes a vegabond for a month. While it might be hard to convince him to do (and may not) his opinions of life would drastically change, i'm sure.

If those things don't work, as well as sincerely and lovingly telling him how you feel, then you'll probably have to leave him behind, i hate to say.

As far as theraputic techniques, it'd probably be both in yours (and maybe his) benefit to find out WHY he's lazy. For instance, does he smoke weed? Did he used to do drugs and quit? Is he depressed? Pessimistic? etc... there are good ways to approach these things as yourself, or as a spouse or friend. you just have to find the right way.