This is how she remembered what her husband had said: ” Your preoccupation with work is destroying this family. We can’t take how wretched you’ve become.”
And as she told it, she’d successfully kept her underlying depression at bay for years. But 18 months of unemployment— which were the busiest months of her life as she attempted to generate both a new job or a profitable idea—- were taking their toll. She was burning out. Exhausted, she felt her efforts had been fruitless.
She called it “career anxiety” and she was correct: her despair had roots both in her anxieties and in her side-tracked career. Self-doubt was gnawing into self-esteem. And the family’s spending was exhausting what was once retirement and college saving.
She likened it to having been speeding down a highway which was suddenly closed down.
We began cautiously, building upon what was firm and secure. We would arrive at the destination traveling on what for her, had been back roads.
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