Did you ever feel that you were swinging on a pendulum? Thinking of going in one direction and then the next day going to the opposite? That’s what Mike and I have been doing this last month.
It all started last year with our decision to downsize our house. We put the house up for sale and then had to get out each Sunday for the open house. It is absolutely ridiculous that both our minds went totally blank when we had to escape for four hours! Anyway, we decided to go out to Arizona for the month of March (both grandkids birthdays are in March) and, or course, the minute we were settled in Arizona, we got a bid for the house!
But now the pendulum really started to swing – we decided to look at houses in Arizona and then came back and looked at homes in Naperville. Our thoughts swung in one direction, then the other.
No snow. Too hot. Closer to family. Leaving family. Leaving friends. Back and forth.
Any of you have these thoughts, too?
The one thing we did NOT realize was that a decision like this involved a Lot of discussions between the two of us – and we both experienced mental overloads after talking and talking.
Mike learned to recognize when my eyes glazed over and I totally tuned him out. I, on the other hand, had to learn patience when Mike wanted to go out and look at houses again and again.
Another challenge – different definitions on the term “downsizing.”
Mike wants to get rid of all my books and I am trying to understand why anyone absolutely needs 200 golf shirts! And why does anyone need so many golf clubs?
