My husband responded soooo well to my emotional breakdown.

TLDR - I pretty much unloaded on my husband tonight and he responded with love, respect and empathy. He said ‘Thank you for talking to me about all of this. I want to be a great husband for you and I want to make you a happy wife!’ 😭🥰

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Like most people around the world, 2020 has been a hard year. We’ve had some great things happen - got married and had our first baby. But we’ve also had some struggles - I stopped working, my Nana passed away, went through over 3 months of my baby waking 10-16 times a night and we’re currently going through a miscarriage on top of everything else 2020 has to offer. I thought I was handling it all really well but I had a chat to my husband tonight and it was so tough.

For 2 hours I talked to my husband about how I feel so isolated, I feel alone even when he’s home, I feel overwhelmed and so so anxious. I talked to him about issues with quality time in our relationship, issues I’m having with our miscarriage, anxiety I have about our daughter, things I need from him and things I need to do for myself. It was a pretty heavy conversation and he held my hand the entire time. He validated what I was feeling. He told me he was sorry that he has contributed to me feeling this way. He said ‘Thank you for talking to me about all of this. I want to be a great husband for you and I want to make you a happy wife!’

Honestly, often my husband gets it wrong. He can’t read my mind and he is very easy going which sometimes means he overlooks some really important issues in our family and our relationship. But whenever I talk to him about something that I’m upset about, he responds so well. He never gets cranky at me for bringing stuff up or accuse me of starting drama. He never minimises how I feel or brush it aside. I’m so so so grateful to have such a loving and supportive husband.