I want to thank everyone for being here. You have been an invaluable support for me the last few weeks.

Yesterday at work I noticed something that has been bothering me. It seemed to me that all the things that have been bothering I have taken steps to improve and that things should be getting better for me but they weren't. Then I blamed it on the death of my dog, which is understandable. But the fact that I felt ok at home but when I got to work I felt awful and drained seemed to mean that it wasn't my doggy anymore. What happened yesterday made one underlying factor in the discomfort I feel at work quite obvious. My boss was being nice to her husband. You see, my boss's husband built the new building for her. He is on site all the time doing work on the building. He keeps give "suggestions" about the operating of the store, a store which my boss built and has run by herself for 17 years. There has been constant tension and passive-aggressive behavior between the two ever since we moved. It has been a perfect model of the relationship between my parents. Sigh. Perhaps now that I recognize this I can disconnect from it.
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