For me the weekends are THE HARDEST for my emotional health and here’s why… during the week, I feel more like the average 39 year old… I work from home on my computer like so many millions of other adults. Yes, I have to take a lot more breaks, and can only manage to work a few hours total, but in between computer work I just do the normal things, dishes, laundry, pull some weeds, walk the dog… I eat dinner with my partner every night, we hang out for an hour or so and go to bed (after my extensive bed-time routine of supplements, meds, electrolytes, sleeping aids of course)… but overall my day doesn’t look a whole lot different than my able-bodied partner.
But weekends are a whole different story. On the weekend my friends are out doing activities, traveling, movies, beach, parks, hiking, camping, shopping, dinner… my partner thankfully is an introvert and loves to be home, but still frequently goes out to lunch with her family, or meets up with a friend for an activity, or takes a weekend get-a-way to one of the famous Florida theme parks. There is so much fun on the weekends, what most others use to connect, destress, renew and recharge to face the new week to come, and I miss out on it all… y body simply can’t prevent to be well enough for these weekend activities, like I pretend during the week… so for me, each day has become a blur of the familiar, there is little change or fluctuation in my days and my activities and the weekends bring a special kind of loneliness and grief. Keep strong my fellow warriors, you are not alone.
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