...because they are flagging under the weight of parenting a troubled daughter amongst all the other stuff.
I'm posting this here, rather than elsewhere on MN, because I'm reasonably sure to get a decent amount of genuinely compassionate responses from GC women.
As some of you know, my daughter is struggling with 'trans identity' issues and has been for sometime. She had a really wobbly episode this evening, and DP is handling it all very poorly. He's probably dealing with some depression himself, but he is appallingly defensive about everything, and is taking my daughter's mental state as an attack on him.
So she's sobbing this evening about how much she hates her body as it is, and shouting at everyone, and I am trying to hold everything together after three night shifts, and instead of trying to help me, or support me, or even just make a cup of tea, DP has gone to bed because he's tired and sick of the drama.
Well, yeah, it's not very entertaining in our house right now. But I don't get to check out. A CAHMS appointment is coming up next week and it will be me going, of course. I am buckling under the weight of this and all the other normal day to day stuff and work stress.