A thought (about furnaces and divorce) teacherwriterguy: A little part of "my story" and a thought to go with it:
Yesterday, a circuit board on my furnace blew out or failed, so I woke up to a house heated to the low 50's - BRRRR. Turns out this is a several hundred dollar repair, two weeks before I move out of the house! Grumble grumble.
Anyway - so I wake up today (Monday) and the house is still reeeeeally cold (furnace to be fixed tonight) and as I'm getting ready this morning I find myself having all these "down" thoughts - the divorce is stressy, work is hard, it's a Monday, the house feels empty, etc. etc.
And just as I'm about the get myself in a funk for the day, I reminded myself - you know, honestly, it's probably just because the house is cold and I'm tired. Were I happily married and it were a day off instead of a Monday, I'd probably still be grumbly because of the outside environment.
And that thought really did help - sometimes (I think I wrote this once before) I think I let the fact of the divorce overcloud other things, and it's important to remind myself that physical health and environment really impacts my emotions.
Ok :) Thanks for listening!
twg
Re:A thought (about furnaces and divorce) LostTeacher: i know the feeling....
my best friend just told me she was going to be having a baby. and i had a little mini melt down by myself. :'(
part of me was so super excited for her, because i knew how much she wanted a baby, and that this was a really good thing for her.
but part of me is so super jealous, i don't know what to do. we had both talked about starting to "try" at the same time, and we have so many things in common. her husband is a teacher, her husband shares the same name as my stbxh, we got married a year apart on the same weekend.
so i was feeling really left out, out of the loop, like nothing was going to go my way again.
but then..........i realized that part of my reaction was due to my lack of sleep. i had supervised an over-nighter at my school and i had had 3 hours of sleep in the last 30hrs. so that was probably making me overreact to the situation.
so, taht just shows that you are right that our physical well-being really does have an effect on what we do, how we feel and how we react to what is going on around us.
Re:A thought (about furnaces and divorce) browngreen: and don't forget sexual deprivation..
O sorry... did I say that out loud?
BG
