Hi everyone. Thinking I might need a little help. I am a mum with 3 teenagers and am newly separated. Thought I would be happier but I am just miserable. I can’t get up on weekends and dread them coming. Not sure why! I feel a sense of loss and hopelessness, silly I know because so many people love and support me. I am teary all the time but I am also the best pretender in the world and seem out going and happy when I can actually get out of bed. My kids are fabulous and want to help but they are teens and have their own crap going on.
What is wrong with me? I feel like I’m going totally crazy. I just want to get up and move and keep pretending but I can’t get up 🤪
Hello Fox 25, it's a big change when a separation happens, even if the relationship or marriage has been less than ideal. There's a lot of grief that comes with it, and perhaps the sense of loss and hopelessness you're feeling is connected to that. Given you're newly separated, and have great love and support around you, I wonder if you're placing some unreasonable expectations on yourself to be happy right now at what is an understandably sad and difficult time for you. What do you think?
