She'd hate it if she knew I'd asked, but she is feeling a total lack of hope, is panicking and wants out.
No matter how hard I try, I cannot instill in her the sense of hope that I have for the future. Her response to all this is to want to run and hide or do herself in.
Please, could you spare her a thought in your prayers to help her find the courage to face her fears and let them go? It would also be helping me :) TIA.
Update: Thank you so much to everyone who has responded so kindly with their thoughts and prayers. I'm heading out soon so I won't be able to respond to every reply, but know that I am grateful.
Update2: You're all amazing, and I've been moved to tears by the amount of support you've all given us. Truly, nowhere else could I have found this, and it has helped. My wife was in much better spirits when I returned home tonight.
As someone who goes through “doomer” periods himself, my thought and prayers are with your wife. I find taking a step back from it all helps clear my mind. No GA, no news, no discussions of the plan with friends/family, and no reading into Trump statements. I do that for a week or two and come back feeling better than ever. As humans we get tied up in hope, when hope continually fails us it’s only natural to feel down. We have to remember the plan is long term, a year, he’ll even 4 years is nothing in the big picture. It may be a decade for all this come together, we just need to remain strong and supportive of one another
Yes, take a vacation from the news. Maybe even take a real vacation for a few days.
I haven't felt OK since November 3, 2020. I'm not a patient person, but I'm trying very hard to be. Somedays I feel like your wife and other days I am neutral. Somedays I am hopeful, but those days are few.
God Bless You and Your Wife. May you both be filled with faith, hope, happiness and peace of mind.