It's time we let the spirit come in...

[Daybreak]

During all this time, neither of us has moved out and we both still share the same bed. After having a couple of contract jobs in the area since my layoff, I ended up with my current employer nearly a year ago. The pay could be a lot better (heck, it needs to be in order to meet all of our budget needs) but the work is challenging (and extremely stressful) but more on that later. W's current full time job is a good one and she been there for nearly three years. She is happy there and thinks it will be here final stop in the job market. Our kids are both in a private K through 12 school since the public schools in our area are grossly underperforming and we are not really in a financial position to move within the area. They are thriving there and we get a substantial discount on their tuition.

Even though my psychological outlook over the past few years has been good (or so I thought), W has been suffering on and off again through an extremely prolonged depression compounded by MIL's deteriorating health and eventual passing over three years ago. W stopped attending sessions with our "all in one" therapist a very long time ago and I stopped going after my insurance from my former employer ran out. Due to the extreme amount of stress that I have been suffering at work (plus the stress from my long dead M), my boss strongly suggested that I seek help. I recently located a new therapist who is much more aggressive in his approach than the "all in one" I went to before. The first couple of sessions have been very productive and I'm looking forward to getting on a regular visit cycle (every two weeks).

I'm sure that more details will come out as you good people prod me with questions and I do my best to dredge my memories. But I want to move on to more recent events (in the next post, of course...)