Comments on: On Stress… http://lesbianfamily.org/2007/02/21/on-stress/ find blogs from all kinds of lesbian families Sat, 27 Nov 2010 11:54:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Shelley http://lesbianfamily.org/2007/02/21/on-stress/comment-page-1/#comment-2322 Shelley Thu, 22 Feb 2007 20:05:41 +0000 http://lesbianfamily.org/2007/02/21/on-stress/#comment-2322 (Hey, cool, the Shelleys are taking over the thread!) I am the only person I know (although I'm sure there are others) who undertook the TTC journey intermittently. Try for a few months, take a half a year off, try for a few months, etc. etc... The time off helped me regain my equilibrium and remember that the decision to try to become a parent is just that... a decision to TRY. Whether it actually happens or not was not in my control. No matter what the doctors want you to believe. Good luck, everybody! (Hey, cool, the Shelleys are taking over the thread!)

I am the only person I know (although I’m sure there are others) who undertook the TTC journey intermittently. Try for a few months, take a half a year off, try for a few months, etc. etc…

The time off helped me regain my equilibrium and remember that the decision to try to become a parent is just that… a decision to TRY. Whether it actually happens or not was not in my control. No matter what the doctors want you to believe.

Good luck, everybody!

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]]> By: Trista http://lesbianfamily.org/2007/02/21/on-stress/comment-page-1/#comment-2272 Trista Wed, 21 Feb 2007 18:17:03 +0000 http://lesbianfamily.org/2007/02/21/on-stress/#comment-2272 Oh boy, do I ever have stress. And I'm not so good at managing it. I hear great things about Yoga and breathing and such. I've tried the deep breathing, it does seem to help. One thing that Kristin and I have found that helps is to have friends over. We get sucked into our own little world where everything feels just so cataclysmic and we'll be sniping at each other and so on. When it isn't something really cataclysmic (only feeling that way) and mostly just stress that needs an outlet, all it takes is getting out with friends or having them over... takes our minds off our problems, puts them back in perspective, and gets us back in the habit of speaking nicely to one another. But I'm hoping other people have some more practical stress-relievers for, for example, late on a weeknight when your period just arrived and your partner is doing everything you swear you've told her a HUNDRED times drives you NUTS. Oh boy, do I ever have stress. And I’m not so good at managing it. I hear great things about Yoga and breathing and such. I’ve tried the deep breathing, it does seem to help.

One thing that Kristin and I have found that helps is to have friends over. We get sucked into our own little world where everything feels just so cataclysmic and we’ll be sniping at each other and so on. When it isn’t something really cataclysmic (only feeling that way) and mostly just stress that needs an outlet, all it takes is getting out with friends or having them over… takes our minds off our problems, puts them back in perspective, and gets us back in the habit of speaking nicely to one another.

But I’m hoping other people have some more practical stress-relievers for, for example, late on a weeknight when your period just arrived and your partner is doing everything you swear you’ve told her a HUNDRED times drives you NUTS.

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