The old saw about pulling your finger out of a glass of water, and realizing you didn’t leave a “hole” in the water. A few seconds after, no sign you were ever there.
Husband was burned out a work due to the nature of his job. I was afraid it was going to kill him, so in his early 50s I suggested he take an extended leave of absence from work. The idea was to either give him a chance to recover and decide he wanted to go back to work or he would decide he was quit. He chose the latter. Agreement was that we would each spend our days as each decided and not be together all the time as we were on weekends and holidays.
I continued to work – I am self-employed as an accountant. It worked well as I was down to maybe a dozen clients which gave me the chance to get away from him, but I not overloaded with work other than during tax season. Another part of our agreement was that he would NOT join my embroidery club – if he wanted to join one of same he could join the one in the next county. That has been kept, though he did come and teach a class for us once.
We have tried to build up our craft business and for awhile he did mental health counseling online – neither was that successful.
Over the ensuing time (even before Covid) clients passed away as they were all older so I went out less and less. When Covid hit I was down to one monthly business client – she mails me copies of her info now.
We have been together 24 hours a day since Covid started except for one day I had to go to jury duty and 5 times I have been back at my embroidery club in the more recent months.
But he still weaves on a regular basis and we hope to pickup more events to go to for him to sell same and I still work even I am doing so at home.
We both hope to never retire completely. (And it could be a long time at least for me – we went to a birthday party last weekend for the immediate family for my mom’s 95th birthday!)
Yakety Sax about 1 month ago
You could strike a match on it!
goboboyd about 1 month ago
Face to face Velcro. Stubble meets peach fuzz.
saylorgirl about 1 month ago
That does hurt on women’s faces.
Sir Isaac about 1 month ago
At my retirement party someone said to me, “Now your world is about to fall apart.” Oh tis true tis true.
MuddyUSA Premium Member about 1 month ago
When I retired my fellow workers said I would miss them….I did for exactly 2 days!
cuzinron47 about 1 month ago
Maybe it would be better if he had a beard, it’s softer then stubble.
whulsey about 1 month ago
The old saw about pulling your finger out of a glass of water, and realizing you didn’t leave a “hole” in the water. A few seconds after, no sign you were ever there.
mafastore about 1 month ago
Husband was burned out a work due to the nature of his job. I was afraid it was going to kill him, so in his early 50s I suggested he take an extended leave of absence from work. The idea was to either give him a chance to recover and decide he wanted to go back to work or he would decide he was quit. He chose the latter. Agreement was that we would each spend our days as each decided and not be together all the time as we were on weekends and holidays.
I continued to work – I am self-employed as an accountant. It worked well as I was down to maybe a dozen clients which gave me the chance to get away from him, but I not overloaded with work other than during tax season. Another part of our agreement was that he would NOT join my embroidery club – if he wanted to join one of same he could join the one in the next county. That has been kept, though he did come and teach a class for us once.
We have tried to build up our craft business and for awhile he did mental health counseling online – neither was that successful.
Over the ensuing time (even before Covid) clients passed away as they were all older so I went out less and less. When Covid hit I was down to one monthly business client – she mails me copies of her info now.
We have been together 24 hours a day since Covid started except for one day I had to go to jury duty and 5 times I have been back at my embroidery club in the more recent months.
But he still weaves on a regular basis and we hope to pickup more events to go to for him to sell same and I still work even I am doing so at home.
We both hope to never retire completely. (And it could be a long time at least for me – we went to a birthday party last weekend for the immediate family for my mom’s 95th birthday!)