ts52
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Post by ts52 on Oct 18, 2017 18:34:29 GMT -8
Hello everyone,
This is my first time posting here. I’m a young man, just starting my career. I live with my girlfriend and her two kids. We met approximately two years ago and everything seems to have picked up speed in my life. Such as, starting a four year journey into becoming a tradesman, moving out for the first time, and the responsibilities of having children around me.
It’s been an interesting year to say the least. Not too long before starting my current job, I felt myself changing in a way I didn’t understand and am still trying to comprehend. I didn’t think much of it at the time and carried on with my day to day. After awhile I started feeling more and more numb from just throwing all the current issues at home to the side and just dealing with them later. It came to the point where it started putting stress on my girlfriend and I. Eventually I broke down and left my girlfriends place and returned to my parents house. The move back home was a result of me saying that moving back home will solve all my issues. They continued. They didn’t not get better and only persisted. My mental state declined and my girlfriend kept asking me what was the matter and I didn’t know myself.
After a few weeks of this, I returned to my girlfriends place and resumed life as normal. Feeling better than I had in the previous weeks, something was still off and am still trying to understand and figure out. I feel as if these issues within myself are still relevant and sometimes present them selves in different ways as in not being able to focus at work, getting stuck in mental thought loops and losing motivation. I don’t open up my issues to many people, so I feel as if this is a big step for myself in figuring myself out and being able to bring forward my best self.
T
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Post by mynewunit on Oct 19, 2017 6:29:51 GMT -8
Welcome to the boards Mr T, When I got my first "real" job I got an apartment, a car payment, a wife in about 6 months. Everything was new and interesting for about 1 year. Then one day I felt trapped. Now I didn't know I feel trapped because my whole life was working to find the career, family and "normal life". Then one day I realize I built my own prison with a 30 year sentence. Nothing was going to change. I started thinking of lots of weird things. Maybe I will get a side job at Walmart where I could be a success very easily. I was going to become a tow truck driver. Maybe we will move to a different state.
Lucky for me, I had another problem that got me assigned to a guy a few years my senior to talk to me a lot about life in general. He got me talking about goals, improving myself and taking control of my life. He taught me to focus effort in small areas to progress in a short period of time. Maybe a weekly or monthly goal to focus on work, girlfriend, the kids, the house, the gym, or whatever. Then after a month you have either made progress or you get to move on.
Talk to the girl friend. Tell her that she is going to be the first area of your focus. Then the next month will be the kids. She is in a higher level of commitment than you. She can't trade the kids in, and anyone she brings into her life have to be willing to take on that kid level. You got ramped up quick. Getting the job and then going from Single guy to "Step dad" is a huge adjustment. And kids can make you feel like there is no relief. Acknowledge that you need a "break". Find a new focus or figure out that break. Maybe it is a weekend away with the girlfriend, night out with the guys, early night or sleep in.
If you need a place to start. I have a 10 week, 1 hour per week thing you can use to start. Message me.
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