How do you stop yourself from sinking?
Life has just not ended up the way I expected. Ill physical and now mental health, difficult marriage, abusive parents - leaving long term trauma I hadn't bargained on, child with disability.
Was very bright, Oxbridge graduate. Supposed to "do well." Expectations then of an average middle class lifestyle.
We're really struggling. My ability to work is limited. Husbands income aways been uncertain. Now with covid our income's halved. I can't see how we can buy the christmas presents they want. (We can't. ) Never mind buy driving lessons/school trips in the future.
We dont have pensions. And we're in our 40s.
Its just so scary and so different to how I wanted and expected it to be as a young graduate.
I'm craving stability. Not even an exciting life just to know everything's okay.
I'm sure there's many of us for whom life hasnt quite worked out. How do we keep from sinking?