After 18 months a utter nightmare, redundancy, nearly loosing the house, having no money, owing money all over the place, depression, anxiety, depair you name it, we like many others have had it in spades.
But DH finally has a new job, started 2 weeks ago and he is like a different person. I have some work also, some paid and some volunteer.
It has made such a differnce to EVERYTHING, not having this enormous stress that is constant and leech-like all over you 24-7. It will take us a while to get straight but we are on the right road. There were times when we felt like packing the kids in the car and giving the keys to the mortgage company and buggering off for good. We've had horrific rows, been sobbing with fright and dispair and been up at all hours pacing about.
So just want to say, they if you up against it at the moment, keep thinking that it will get better, it will.