I'm quite glad to be back with my family here in Beirut, but there have been a few issues. Ever since my trip, Stella has been having some problems:
- She now requires reassurance when going to bed that I'm going to be there when she wakes up.
- Mary Ann told me that Stella ran out her room crying that she was afraid tigers during the second week I was gone.
- Stella is now very concerned about Monsters and doesn't want us to close the door to her room at night.
I can't make any clear causative case between my leaving and all these symptoms suddenly occuring. They might only be coincident. I doubt it though. Stella and I have a very close relationship, and me being gone for two weeks was a huge rock to drop in her pond. I've never been gone before at this. I suspect these things are happening because her world got rocked and that's causing her stress.
I'm concerned that things are going to get back to normal just in time for me to leave again. Still though, I can't just not take any business trips because it will disrupt her...
Let the therapy bills commence.
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I wondered how she was going to take it. And even though I feel bad that I took a little girls Papa for two weeks I really enjoyed seeing my brother.
Terra, you have no idea how jealous I am of the two weeks you got!
When my husband was doing the four days away, three days home, we usually hit trauma level on Monday AM, and Wednesday night. He called every night while he was gone to say goodnight to them and say family prayers together.
That really helped and if they wanted to call and say hi during the day, we did it. And when he got home, (and this took a couple months of practice), I cleared the decks and learned to say "No" to lots of activities because my kids needed time with their dad. Family time is one of the reasons he’s changed jobs twice since. Now he hardly travels which is nice, but his schedule is starting to fill up again with responsibilities. So, I'm starting lock down the schedule again, time with dad is a valuable commodity and essential to little kids.
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