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To think life couldn't get any crappier

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NooNooHead · 31/07/2017 15:40

Just been told today that I need to look for another job in a month's time (I am a freelance copywriter) and I am finding the timing incredibly off as I am coming up terms with my brother's terminal illness and the fact he could go any day now.

Talk about crappy timing. I have dealt with so much over the past few years (see my other posts about head injury, breakdown, post concussion and movement disorder, plus my ectopic in March).

I've got to be really strong and just bloody get on with it, but it made me feel so helpless today when I told my parents and my mum gave me a lecture (when I'm aged 36) about how she went to work long hours with children etc and I've had in cushy etc. Talk about a guilt trip..! Plus the usual lecture about being really proactive and getting on with things instantly. I guess I am BU making a remark about this as they will be helping me out financially, but my parents were never made redundant nor have had health issues, so I did find my mum's remark a bit hurtful.

I guess I am asking AIBU to ask life to give me bloody break and deal me something good for once? I know everyone has adversity and just gets on with it, but I am finding it hard to keep on slogging away when the past few years have been so tough. Sad

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HooplaLoopla1 · 31/07/2017 15:43

Everyone has their own problems, it doesn't mean yours are any smaller to you. Flowers

I know it can be hard to remember when things are so tough right now, but I always try to remind myself that when things have got that bad, they can only go back up again!

NooNooHead · 31/07/2017 15:47

Thank you, it is good to have someone put things in perspective a bit. Flowers

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MyLittlePickleBoo · 31/07/2017 21:22

I'm sorry I don't have any useful suggestions but didn't want to just read and run. Sending CakeFlowersWine and hugs. I'm so sorry to hear of your brother's illness, that must be utterly heartbreaking for you all without everything else you have on your plate. I really hope everything else starts to look up for you soon! Flowers

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