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advice please. Im kinda losing my head

My partner and I have started our small business. We do delicious vegetarian food and so far we doing decent. I have severe social anxiety and i cannot work. Having this business helps me alot because i feel i am doing something to earn money plus i do what i love which is cooking. We decided that when we marry he will work and i will work from home doing catering. My partners mother has other ideas. She is furious with me working from home and keeps telling my partner i have to go to work . She is really stressing me out. I am so focused on this business and for the first time i feel i am something. She makes me feel so bad bcause in her mind a real woman works and pays bills and even tho i work so hard she doesn see it. She thinks i load of her son and thats nt the case. She is stressin me out alot. What do i do???
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4meAndyou · F
I don't know where you live, so I don't know how your culture regards family issues like this one, however, I might suggest that you speak to your husband. Explain how horrible his mother's words and attitude make you feel, and ask him if he can arrange a meeting with a mental health counselor for the three of you together. Severe social anxiety is something a mental health counselor will understand, and he or she might be able to explain to your mother-in-law, (although she does sound like she is very stupid indeed) so that she is able to understand, and the counselor can also act as a mediator or referee so that the three of you can have an honest discussion.
Clairessa09 · 31-35
@4meAndyou the last thing i want is to be labelled wid a mental illness and be taken more for a ride. I jus ignore her. Shes a pain even he knows that. He tells me to pay no attention to her at all and jus do wat im doin.