Overcoming Comparison
How do you stop comparing yourself to others? Every time I think things are going ok, there is always someone around me who has or does that thing better.
My husband and I just bought a house. A used house, old and run down but a low enough payment that we will be comfortable, we have spent the last month nights and weekends fixing up the kitchen, replacing the backyard fence, painting and touching up and cleaning and getting it ready to move in. I felt so proud that we did it, finally after almost a decade of renting, something we own and worked on to make our own.
He told his friend we are moving in tomorrow, and his friend told him that he and his wife just bought a house too. Sent a picture of the two of them posing in front of it with their 2 kids, it's huge and gorgeous and way better than ours and all of a sudden the thing I felt so proud of 30 seconds prior was garbage compared to what they have.
I feel like I do this to myself a lot and I don't know how to stop feeling like my accomplishments aren't as good as those of the people around me. I just want to be happy to live in my own house and now I feel like I'm not good enough and can't brag or post pictures because it looks so ridiculous and not impressive, and I'm not excited to move in anymore. How can I stop getting jealous and comparing what we have to what others have? Sorry that was so long.
Achieve your health goals from period to parenting.