Is there an appropriate way to tell someone that something they say is making you anxious...?

[SeekingAfrica]

The fact is you are in someone's home... that would be an opportunity to do your stress relief and...

Definitely! That is the attitude with which I arrived, it's just harder than I expected. I'm sure I will learn a lot in this time and when I get home I'll be more appreciative of what I've built. I guess I'm just finding more roadblocks than I've expected. I hope I manage what you said soon, I'm really having a hard time. Although of course, we do learn the most from such times, I know.

 

[The Albatross]

Glad you "got there"... it is not personally the "easiest"... but it is a fact based reality from which other possibilities can spring.

 

[SeekingAfrica]

Glad you "got there"... it is not personally the "easiest"... but it is a fact based reality from...

I always learn the most from the things that I feel at the time "I can't get through"- but when you're in the moment, it's always harder to pull yourself out. I do have a home waiting for me though, and I don't want to lose that, however hard time I'm having right at this moment. So that's why I keep going over this. I don't like how I feel, but I'm definitely not ready to give up. Ever. So I have to figure out how to pull through.

 

[The Albatross]

Actually when your in the moment is a prime opportunity to act and avoid the emotional backlash. So it's the opposite of what you say though it likely "feels" differently (girl you know how I am about the "feelings stuff".)