Did Someone Say Anxiety?
With the elections over and the waiting period beginning, maybe it's time to get back to what I do best: oversharing! Today's topic is incredibly personal to me, and I'm hoping it opens up a conversation because I genuinely want to know if anyone else has experienced this. For most of my life, I have been fiercely independent. I've always been perfectly capable of being on my own, making decisions, following through, and handling whatever life decided to throw my way. When my daughters were growing up, their father traveled extensively for work. He generally left on Sunday and returned Thursday evening. When the girls were very little, we sometimes traveled with him, but once school started, those trips were mostly reserved for school breaks. That meant I was essentially running the household on my own five days a week. We had rules, routines, expectations, and standards. Life happened, as it always does, and sometimes decisions had to be made without the luxury of c...