Why I’m Writing Instead of Going to Therapy
First, let me start with a bit of background that I think you may find useful.
My boyfriend and I have been long-distance for over a year and we will continue to be long-distance for 6 months out of the year every year because he’s a professional baseball coach. My job is, always was, and always will be stressful, however, the stress has increased drastically since I’ve accepted a new position at a new company. For a few months, anytime my boyfriend and I would talk on the phone or on FaceTime, I felt that I was just unloading all my work stress, complaints, and “issues” onto him. We would hang up the phone and I would feel guilty because I felt like I spent the whole one or two hours complaining about work. When we talked on the phone, I didn’t mind talking about work for a few minutes, but I didn’t want work conversations to take over all of our phone calls every time we called one another.
