We are doing alright
But basically we are doing alright. I feel really sorry for other families that are really doing it tough right now though. Imagine if you lost your job due to the economic crisis. What would you do? Especially if you had a family to feed and a mortgage to pay. What if your partner couldn’t work due to injury or illness? Or maybe they just had a baby and need to stay home as they couldn’t afford childcare and couldn’t take the baby to work. Its awful hearing about those situations. And eventually the bank ends up taking their house and they are left with nothing. Due to no fault of their own. It is really a horrible situation. And I wonder if the families ever recover from that? How do they cope psychologically? It must be a terrible blow on a man’s ego to have something taken away from his family even though it wasn’t his fault. It must just tear relationships apart beyond recovery sometimes. I feel really lucky that my partner and I aren’t in that situation ourselves. As strong as we are together, I don’t know if even we would survive it.