A huge part of my anxiety was being anxious about being anxious Your preparing to be anxious about a future situation (which you cannot know how it will be because it's the future and hasn't happened!) is like that.

I would put a different spin on it, experiment while you are house sitting, especially that weekend. Do you want to be anxious when your boyfriend is not around? That's all you, not about your boyfriend and his not being around. You want to be content in your own skin, doing your own thing. Yes, it's great when we're with our SO's but giving them our own security doesn't make sense.

I love to read and often do not get the private time. When I have a good book, I go to bed early so I can read in bed, undisturbed. I don't know if you work, but I would stay up until 2:00-3:00 when I was not so anxious when my husband was away on business trips. Were I you, I would welcome and explore your anxiety and see if you can figure out where it is coming from and, during the days, see if you can come up with ideas that might be helpful to you, in your own case, to try.

The workbook you have sounds good but kind of "generic" and, if you don't know what is causing your own anxiety not being with your boyfriend, may not help much?

I would make some fun plans of my own for what I would like to do and try while I'm on my own. Have you ever lived on your own? I did for 13 years and then, suddenly, when I had a SO was anxious when he wasn't there? That's "odd" if you think about it? Think hard about your own situation and write some questions like that that need answers! If you are an experimenter and really interested in yourself and making yourself feel better, that can go a long way; no one else can do it for you.