The Right Balance
My Fitness Journey
1 October 2015
Inspire you, inspire me
22 October 2015
When I gave up work earlier this year, I naively thought we would benefit as a family by spending more quality time together and that I’d suddenly become stress free.
Leaving work would mean that my husband Mark and I would gain some time off together instead of working opposite days to take care of our little ones. We would become a couple again instead of the passing ships we had become. I’d be less stressed as I would no longer be prepping lessons or marking work for the college students I was teaching. Life would be perfect…..wouldn’t it?
In today’s world life as a mother can be demanding; and whether you’re a working mum or stay at home mum, the pressures are endless. The pressure to succeed at work, the pressure to be a great mum, the pressure to breastfeed, the pressure to eat well, the pressure to feed your kids well, the pressures of homework, the pressures of after school activities, the pressure to be on time, the pressures of washing, ironing, cleaning, the financial pressures. Pressure, pressure, pressure: BLOW!! It’s easy to see how many relationships can be put on the back-burner.
It’s been over 6 months since I gave up work and I could count on one hand the nights/days we’ve spent together as a couple. Life just gets busier and busier….it seems the stress of work was quickly replaced with the stress of family life and running a business; and the quality time….we still haven’t found it yet!!
The work/life balance is working pretty well and I feel blessed for that. My work is now with my children doing something I love and that couldn’t be more perfect in my eyes. As for the wife/mother balance, let’s say the mother is tipping the scales right off the table!!!
After spending 3.5 years embracing the experience of parenthood, we’ve put ourselves last and that’s the choice we made when starting a family…..or is it? Maybe it’s time to find that balance and make the effort to be a couple again. After all, that’s how it all began……and now……well now it’s time to get a little bit of that back!!!
