To want to run round screaming hitting things with sticks? Or am I being spoilt?

[amber1979]

Last year all was great.

Me and DP busy house hunting, wanting to settle down, start a family, cuddle up in our own little home... We even came off the pill - just thought sod it (we're not getting any younger). You get the gist.

Fast forward three months.... He's had a breakdown because of stress at work and is on AD's. I've been made redundant and my increasingly frantic job search is going nowhere. Needless to say we're back on the pill. Sniff.

For finacial reasons, we're forced to live seperately.

I'm not (quite) destitute, live in a nice house (parents) but I still want to scream. ARGH.

Rant over, sorry.

I think hitting things with sticks is always a good idea- but it may help you to imagine a parallel universe where your DP's breakdown and your redundancy had happened, and you were pregnant and in debt/negative equity.

It's a spanner in the works, but you may just have averted disaster IYSWIM. It's just a temporary glitch.

Do you mind me asking how old you are?

(I'm guessing 30/31 from your username)

Strangely I hadn't actually considered that, it's hard to see the wood for the trees.

Cheers, that's a slightly less rage-inflaming way to put it.