Lost at the moment (2)

[lfm]

So update for the group. #$%! hit the fan at work yesterday. I manage a small team of people in my job. One employee in my office and one in another state.

A month and a half ago I had the employee in my office accept a position in another city, and we've been working on re-writing the job description to better align with responsibilities going forward. Yesterday my employee in the other city gave me his resignation. So once he's gone, I'll be doing the work of 3 people until I can get replacements hired and trained. Probably looking at 2-3 months before things calm down again, and that's being optimisitic.

Anyway, that lays the background for a short conversation with my WW last night, where I told her about my employee resigning. Following that, I said that this means that I'm going to have to focus on work going forward, and that I can't be invovled with our relationship anymore that it's too much of a distraction. I explained that I can't be her friend that she goes to to talk about things with the OM, that we can't be doing things together anymore (we would still go out to dinner or see a movie from time to time). That I'll most likely spend all of my time at home working for the foreseeable future.

So I'm basically going dark for the foreseeable future. I did tell her that if there is something with the kids or the house by all means let me know what's going on, but that's the extent of what I can be involved with at this point. I told her my job is the one thing in my life right now that I need to make sure I have under control, and that's where my focus needs to be.

I realized this situation is helping me dettach as I had been checking cell phone useage, etc. and have not had the desire to do that at all this morning. We'll see how the next couple of weeks go, but man have to say when it rains it pours!

Hope everyone is having a good start to this Tuesday!