I know, for me, how crucial it is to set limits on things like responsibilities, tasks or itinerary items, or just plain stress levels. If I don't, I can quite easily become ill from my bipolar disorder. Sometimes quickly and severely.

I'm wondering what steps/methods you use to help set limits on things to ensure your mental well-being.

I'm already finding myself in a situation where my limits are surely being exceeded. Sometimes I'm the violator and sometimes my husband is. Of course life's happenings themselves can bring on too much stress. That's hard to avoid. How do you step back, in all of these situations?

My husband has been planning a trip for us. I talked to him over a week ago about risks, and yet he keeps adding more and more. When I warn him, he sometimes argues. Other times he gives in, exasperated. And yet he knows very well what can happen!

My husband now wants to invite his sister to join us in Barcelona (a huge surprise since he'd usually NEVER want such a thing). I really like his sister a lot, but both he and she can be stubborn buggers and fight easily. If I were to go ballistic on top of that, it would be a mighty ugly situation.

Note: We don't even know if we (or at least I) will be accepted into the EU in September. It depends on if the US improves greatly at lowering our covid cases. The EU would not trust numbers that were artificially lowered by cutting down on testing in the US. They're not stupid!