Carolyn Hax: Work-stress-dumping problem has become a marital problem

Dear Carolyn: My work, in a health-care field, is stressful to the point that I’m nearly breaking down in tears every day, and doing it isolated and from home hasn’t helped. I no longer have co-workers to vent to or walk around the block with, and instead I’m offloading everything onto my wife. Today she knocked on my office door with a simple question (“I’m heating up leftover Chinese, want some?”). I started offloading about my latest stress, and after what felt like 20 seconds to me, she informed me that I’d actually been talking for 20 minutes straight, and that I do this multiple times a day. She’s told me she can’t handle being my stress recycling bin any longer.