Stress

You never really realize the amount of stress and pressure you are under on a constant basis, until you are able to take a break from it all. When that break comes and you relax, nothing feels better and you didn't even know that you were stressed out!

My life is constant stress, I didn't realize it until last weekend when I was in Georgia visiting one of my very favorite people. We got there and my body just instantly relaxed, my mind took a break, and I was able to laugh, have fun, and I felt like skipping because my body was just so light and carefree for a few days.

I didn't have to worry about cooking, cleaning, hearing people yell at me - because I was in charge. For a few moments I was in charge of my life! I didn't have to have people tell me how to raise my kid, or what I had to get done in order to succeed. I was successful on my own, and I could make it on my own.

Coming home from that trip was the worst feeling ever, I love my family but I am so tired of being told what to do. I am so tired of being treated as though I am not the mother of my child, I know what is best. If I want to let her fall down and scrape her knees, there's nothing wrong with that - it's how kids learn. You can't just shelter them from everything in life and expect them to be successful. They have to get out there, get dirty, make mistakes..

My husband and I want to move to Georgia, but he wants to stay within his company that he currently works with -and they are hiring in the city we want to move to. However, he hasn't heard anything back from the branch manager and I am getting frustrated. I understand his desire to make a name for himself in the company and that he wants to build his reputation. But I am really impatient, and I qualify for at least 10 jobs in the area that pay what we need in order to move.

I can't leave my husband behind just because I can get a job, but at the same time I can't stay here. I'm so stressed out all the time that I am rarely ever happy.

What am I supposed to do?