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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My husband lost his job during the pandemic and I was super stressed about it (though I am a fed / have benefits). The fact of the matter is, at the time, our younger daughter had a lot of medical needs and having him available for that was very helpful and I look back at the Halloween costume he had the time to make for our older daughter and smile. He took a job that had some red flags during the interview and it ended up being really, really miserable. I didn’t realize quite how miserable until he eventually was fired (he was actually planning to quit) and the stress became less, not worse! Anyway, he worked there about 9 months, was gaslit and mistreated, but got an 8 week severance. I promised myself I wouldn’t allow my panic to push him into a job. He told me he’d like to take 3 weeks to recover from the job and then start job hunting. I said that was fine. I woke up in day 23 and thought “I wonder when I should nudge him” and he said “Okay, time to start the job hunt!” He actually heard from recruiters almost immediately, and had actually onboarded at a new job before the severance ended! He’s been there 3.5 years. It’s not perfect, but it’s a lot better than the blip. It’s so stressful, but trying my best to let my husband figure it out without me butting in helped the 2nd time he was searching. [/quote]

Thank you for sharing this. We're working on a game plan moving forward and crossing our fingers that something good comes along.[/quote]

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