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- 1. Problems getting to a wonderful function My son and a close friend have a golf outing.It's a wonderful day, golf for me, lunch and a nice dinner for everyone, the ladies put together games, a group of friends and parents we've known for years...
- As always, I appreciate everyone's input. Short history, happily married 30+ years, wife happy until a house sale which she quickly regretted, had 7+ homes, hotels for past year and a half and recently moved into our new house but that has not...
- Background, Well-functioning, happy wife, and 30 years of marriage. We decided to move closer to the beach, came into a difficult market and she suffered crippling depression and anxiety resulting in hospitalization and 7 different rentals or...
- Some people here have significant issues and many have helped me. Interestingly, when people are giving out advice, they are usually calm, sensible, brief, and well-organized leading to the obvious questions, why not give yourself advice in the...
- What is the best way to handle stressful situations for the family member. 1. My wife developed this strange dysmophic disorder and does not like how she looks. We're going to a town fair, arrive, and then she says I don't want to go in. After...
- Posting again for my good friends, again appreciate all your help. 1. Two Jennies Periodically when talking to my wife, I refer to regular Jenny and anxiety Jenny. My wife said that makes her upset, but I do not want to validate behavior which...
- Moving into our new house with new challenges. As my friends here know, spent a year and a half in about 8 different location as my wife rejected a house, then regretted her rejection, blamed herself for problems, sank into a deep depression, was...
- To my friends, here, we have a house. It was not easy and today was no different, but we finished and have a new house. 1. Lesson Looking in retrospect, I lost my way, I heard a sermon, Where are you, and it rang a bell. I lost my way somewhat,...
- Had a nice dinner with my wife at this upper end hotel, with a piano players providing nice music. It was tough to get her to go, took a good hour, but we had a nice time at dinner as we did a few days ago, reminescing about 30+ years of marriage,...
- Appreciate all the advice. Background, wife seemingly happy and normal for 65 + years and 30 + years of marriage, developed serious depression and anxiety after a problematic move. We spent the week first with family when she seemed to be...
- Again, seemingly well-functioning woman for 65 years, plummeted into deep depression and anxiety in connection with home purchase. 1. Psychiatrist We met with psychiatrist Wed. She went easily (good), seemed animated when they spoke of...
- In honor of Father's Day, let me recommend a great movie that deals with mental health issues, Everybody's Fine. A chic flick about men, how they handle problems, issues, children. Provacative, insightful, with Robert DeNire in a (nonviolent)...
- House purchaseMy wife and I were happily married, and decided to purchase a house near the beach, her dream. The market was very difficult, there were bidding wars, we finally found a house, we signed a contract, there were some tough conditions...
- I am fortunate to have a very successful son, how much credit do I take, honestly relatively little. He figured out things I didn't know, and carved a path of popularity and promotion, working with groups that didn't know much less practice. I...
- Quick Background Wife of 30+ years had an exemplary work record, happy mother of 3, and generally satisfied with life, we decided to move near the beach during Covid, and the process was immensely stressful as we lost out on houses, there were...