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[quote=Anonymous]I am in an extraordinarily high-stress period at work. I love what I do, but ... it's just a lot, and sometimes I really feel at the end of my rope. Moreover, I do need to work. We couldn't get by on one income alone.
I have a friend who lives nearby who texts both myself and another pal about how leisurely and better-balanced her life is now that she quit her job and does volunteer work at an art gallery (think Charlotte York from SATC but more earthy crunchy). She is a lovely person, but she's often texting photos of her book from the cafe she's at or flowers from a walk - which I'm seeing at the end of a long day staring at a screen, and I can't help but feel...bitter or something. 
She has said over drinks that she had no choice but to stop working after she found herself snapping at her kids too much. I mean, OK, but...a lot of people have to work and snap at their kids and just suck it up, or still work and try not to snap...it's just sort of this blind spot. And now it's getting bad because the other friend is side-texting me about how out of touch she is. I think it's beginning to kind of erode our friendship. She'll text asking to meet for lunch and we can't (we do work from home so maybe it's reasonable she thinks we can steal off but it's not easy)...things like that. It's just like this weird GAP. And she talks about staying home and how NECESSARY it is... a lot. It's hard not to feel kind of odd about it all, like...not everyone can do this?? Ugh Sorry I am just ... venting here.[/quote]

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