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Old 02-07-2007, 06:48 PM   #1
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Frustrated.....

I am soo frustrated. As I posted earlier, my husband is trying to find a job and he is having trouble. I am soooo stressed and angry that he is not working right now...we finally have saved a little bit of money that I don't want to use and I am just hoping that he has a job and we don't have to use it.. he says if we have to we have to, but I don't want to and I am obsessing over money now bad.. any advice?

 
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Old 02-07-2007, 09:31 PM   #2
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Re: Frustrated.....

You have to support him otherwise he is going to give up. It isn't easy looking for a job. Just the loss of the initial job can depress a person and make it hard to move one, so support him as best you can. If he is actively looking then there is nothing more you or he can do about it.

I wish him and you luck in his pursuits,
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Re: Frustrated.....

Ya, just be supportive, try not to be worried as in a few months you may look back and see that there was no reason whatsoever to worry.

The obsession over money is really an obsession about power and control because that's what money represents to us. You feel out of control and with little power right now. Try to accept that and let yourself feel the reality of little if any power and control because the fact of the matter is we don't have much. It only takes a little something, like loss of a job, an earthquake, a wall street crash, a terrorist attack, a disease... to shatter our sense of control and then we become a neurotic mess. If you can learn to go moment by moment, day by day, then when your husband does get his job and things are more stable, you will feel as though you will have mastered, at least a little bit, the issue of powerlessness. If you can feel relatively comfortable and stable in situations of powerlessness, well then, you are very powerful!!

 
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Re: Frustrated.....

I think your OCD is playing a mean trick on you like it does on me. You see your biggest fear/anxiety is having bad credit, not being able to purchase groceries, etc...so your OCD makes what let you have peace unless your husband has a job. This is very tough on you because you probably have children and want to put on a happy face but the anxiety won't give you a break which turns on your OCD. So here is my idea:

1)Get Xanax! It's stops my anxiety dead in it's tracks. It also make me a little sleepy so be careful.

2) Go out--Don't spend time at home. Instead go a friends house, the book store, if you have kids take them to Toys R' Us and let them play with the toys in the store and you don't have to buy them

3)Tell you husband you love him very much.

I hope he finds a job soon!

 
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Re: Frustrated.....

I take Xanax as well and it does help a lot. How long have you been taking it dgcango? Also, how much do you take a day? I am taking 2 mg per day and have been for about 4 months now.

 
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