Sooooooo..... have had a better day today, and it all started yesterday arvo. Thank the lord!! DP and I had a really good chat about things yesterday and we both realised how much pressure we're under and how things have taken a toll in our relationship as a consequence.
He runs his own business and is ridiculously busy, his phone never stops and he's on call pretty much 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Plus I work full time (well 4 days a week now as of last week), plus we've not long finished renovating our house, plus we've obviously got this baby coming, plus we just bought a new car, plus we've got to get our new rental place ready for holiday rental by about the end of October and it needs painting (it's 5 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms) and some other bits and pieces done, plus we had to get a whole house full of furniture over there, plus run the house we live in on a day to day basis, plus I've had the flu and just only in the last few weeks come out of the "danger zone" for this pregnancy...... I really think everything just got too much for us and we were taking it out on each other... I know there are people out there with situations waaaaaaaayyyyyyyy harder than ours, but when it's your own situation, that's all you can really personally know. Anyway, in a nutshell we have sorted our shit out, paid off all our debt except the rental property, and are feeling a little better for talking about how we were both feeling.
Plus my flu is going and I'm feeling a little more well equipped for coping!!! And I STILL maintain these bloody hormones made me worse!!! lol!
Anyway, gotta run to yet ANOTHER meeting! Hope all is well and will post again later to give my thanks to some buddies who always cheer me up! : )
My goodness girl... You are a crack up. "Oh I'm just carrying a small apartment block on back but really it isn't so bad because I've seen people carry a skyscraper.." (Observe while most people are walking about with nothing but a small backpack). Can I tell you from what you've listed that it isn't just you feeling your situation... you've been going through A HECK OF A LOT!!! Trooper honestly. In fact of the top ten most stressful things all you need is like a wedding and a funeral in there and I am pretty sure you'd have ticked off the entire list!!!! No wonder you're both stressed to the max!
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear that you guys have sat down, had it out and are feeling better. Let's hope it is a bit smoother sailing from here for a while huh?
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Thanks GS! You're always great for making me feel better!!! I just think it's not until you stand back and take stocktake of what's going on..... you just plod along each day doing what you think is normal!! I think it was all ok for us to manage but when the timelines shorten considerably and hormones come into play, everything starts to crumble around you! I think it was good to sit back, make a list, work through each thing one by one and realise that we're in this together, and we were back in control.
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