Dear Danielle:

Welcome back to the forums with your 8th thread, EIGHT YEARS, four months and 15 days after your last post of June 10, 2015, on your 8th thread “Letting go of the past“. My first reply to you was on that thread in June 9, 2015.

You wrote back then (6-9-2015) about yourself and about the same man, your current boyfriend of 10 years: “I love bettering myself, and I am willing to do the work to get there..  he has inspired me to be better“.

Currently, your “very kind soul with a big heart” boyfriend is consumed with a very challenging situation at work, and “he’s almost become.. mean?“, you wrote. But you know that he’s not mean. Finding another job is not an option, you say.

Finding new ways for him to lessen and manage the heightened stress level inherent in his current job is necessary, isn’t it?

anita