mostly by giving myself an imprecise, distant deadline to check out if things don’t get better by then. Right now, that deadline is the death of my mother. After she’s gone I’ll have nobody to mourn me, no ability to keep the lights on, and no one else I’d care to stick around for.
I’d guess I have between 5 and 10 years. Either things get better and I stick around, or they don’t, and it won’t be my problem anymore.
That’s about it. Having a defined “I know this will be over, in time, whether it continues to suck or not” has made it easier to not outright end it now.
mostly by giving myself an imprecise, distant deadline to check out if things don’t get better by then. Right now, that deadline is the death of my mother. After she’s gone I’ll have nobody to mourn me, no ability to keep the lights on, and no one else I’d care to stick around for.
I’d guess I have between 5 and 10 years. Either things get better and I stick around, or they don’t, and it won’t be my problem anymore.
That’s about it. Having a defined “I know this will be over, in time, whether it continues to suck or not” has made it easier to not outright end it now.