Your loved one is struggling – and so is your relationship. Time to have a word with their boss?
Impotence is a challenge in any relationship. I’m not talking about the inability to swell your organs here but about the feeling of powerlessness when your partner is suffering from stress, anxiety and even burnout at work – when they’re having a bad time and you don’t know how to help.
Many of us, I’m sure, will have stood by a coat rack, trying to put our face into the correct shape as the person we love rants, groans or collapses under the weight of pressure from their job. What’s more, many of us will have been in the position of feeling incredibly stressed about work ourselves, knowing that it’s turning our relationship as sour as a lemon in the face, but unsure how to resolve the situation. Whether it’s deadlines, colleagues, shift patterns or anything else from the ghastly spreadsheet of work stress, we are all susceptible and we may all act out in our relationships as a result. So, what to do?
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