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How To Recover From A Major Setback In Your Relationship
My own current relationship has continued on for four years… going on five years. During this time, a lot has happened. We’ve worked through our own health struggles. We’ve suffered financial hardships. One of the worst events that we’ve had to work through together was dealing with the catastrophic destruction of our home. My fiancé lost his car completely and our home had about $20,000 in damages that a drunk driver had caused driving into our home. We never knew the guy and he came from a totally different part of town.
We wanted to enjoy life in our new home that we owned, but we didn’t see or the accident coming that had happened after we purchased our home. I was shocked over this event that had happened. I questioned reality and why this horrible event happened to me. After so many difficult things that I had already went through, I was faced with a mess that would take awhile to rebuild.
We were not prepared to deal with such destruction on our home that we had just purchased in the fall. We had found ourselves trying to mentally understand what had just happened along with feeling overwhelmed at all of the work that needed to be done.
We had the fact that we were safe and unharmed as something to be grateful for. Even though we were disappointed that we had a mess on our hands, we still…
