Ask HN: I Need to Talk to Someone
It's a difficult position. Many of us are teetering on the edge. I couldn't support my wife and I while she continued what she was working on, I had to move home with my parents while she continued on her own so at least one of us could move forward. I felt ashamed, unless, hopeless. We spent over 6 months apart, but our marriage survived, and so did I.<p>This really helped me:<p>When despair for the world grows in me<p>and I wake in the night at the least sound<p>in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,<p>I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water,<p>and the great heron feeds.<p>I come into the peace of wild things<p>who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.<p>I come into the presence of still water.<p>And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light.<p>For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.<p>- Wendell Berry<p>Get out into nature for a day, leave your phone at home, observe reality, walk.  The world is mighty, and so are you. :)