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Originally Posted by NP_Complete
I just told someone at work what happened and now I'm feeling vulnerable. Only two people at work know in detail what happened. A third person saw it on the news but I've never spoken to her about it.
I was feeling stressed out about the work going on at my house and she saw me in the break room and asked if I was okay. I don't know why, but I told her that there had been a fire and I was in a hotel for a month and was stressed about the repairs getting finished on time. She asked if my husband got out okay and for some reason I just blurted out that he was in jail and started crying. We found a room and I told her the whole story, including that he was abusive and that I had a restraining order against him, but now I'm wishing I hadn't done any of that. Why did I have to air all my dirty laundry? What is wrong with me?
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Nothing is wrong with you. None of this is your fault... you're doing what you need to do to get through this and it's good to talk about it if it helps you.
The at-work thing, I empathise. Many years ago I was in a difficult relationship with an alcoholic, very stressful, and one day at work it was a bad day and a coworker came over to my desk and said hey how you doing or something and he was one of those sweet people who always showed they cared about you and just seeing his face that day I burst into tears and he was like let's go in the break room and talk so we did. Bless his heart he thought he did something wrong but I told him no your caring face just did me in because I needed that so bad and telling him the whole story helped me a lot.
Long way of saying I get how it can all just fall out of your mouth when you aren't expecting it. Safe hugs to you.