If being the housemaker for your family is your *job*, then you should get days off, vacations, and a break at the end of the day just like everyone else has with their jobs. It sounds like you don't get that, that you work your job full time, all the time and that has GOT to be depressing. If your husband had to go to work and never get a day off, and had to stay at work til bedtime then come home sleep and go right back to work again, he'd be stressed and sad too -- it just isn't fair or healthy.
You need to schedule in time for yourself like you do for everything else that matters, be it making sure dinners ready or the kids soccer practice. Something like an hour for the gym and tuesdays and thursdays, a walk in the fresh air or trip to park every day at 4pm... an hour or a 2 set aside a day a few days a week to work on your projects, home business ideas etc... then gradually increase that time as needed.
You are losing yourself and even though your husband wants the house taken care of , deep down I am sure he doesn't want you to lose yourself and become some clothes washing robot... the you he fell in love with is becoming sad and misplaced and you have to have a heart to heart with him and explain the feeling of isolation you are experiencing.
Don't blame him for you not having friends, it will make him defensive and less likely to understand what you are going through. But as you start doing activities that focus on YOU and not just your family , you will become a brighter happier person and people (friends) will gravitate to you more easily.




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