Exit strategies

[tinyjo]

I've been thinking about it recently and it's occured to me that one of my major mechanisms for dealing with bad, difficult or uncomfortable situations is to come up with an exit strategy. That's not to say that I won't be intending to try and improve the situation or turn it around, although of course you can't always. It just helps me to feel more in control and less stressed to know that if I really need to, I can step back, get away, whatever. It takes the pressure off. I think that's one of the reasons I find myself so uncomfortable with the idea of myself as a parent - there's no exit strategy you can really plan there.

I should do a real life update soon, really. I'll get to it, I promise.

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Re: Hmm...

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it's much easier to quit heroin than parenthood if you decide the tradeoff doesn't suit you

Exactly, and that's part of what puts me off. As well as using this when things are bad, I often use it to help me feel comfortable about taking a risk - if things went bad I would extricate myself via so and so - but that's just not an option with kids. If you take to it then you're fine but I think I would find the early years overwhelmin - I function particularly badly on broken sleep.