Weekend flew by quickly as I slept in alot due to the nasty weather and I was also down with flu.
There was also the talk of the swine flu that killed many in Mexico now. As if we do not have enough problems of our own right now?
During weekend period, the unemployed probably have a good break from the routine of waking up and facing the four walls. When I was on prolonged joblessness during the Sars period, going out with my family during weekend was a good relief. It enabled me to focus on building up the relationship at home rather than constantly thinking about getting a job.
Right now, my family is in Sydney (my wife was posted there) and I will join them in June. Nothing beat being with your loved ones and after finishing what I have to do here, I will take a welcomed break in down under.
Alot has being said about family support being a crucial factor on how the unemployed can find solace and strength from. Especially y for men, they tend to hide away from people more due to ego than anything else.
By sharing our problems with our family members, we also want them to partake not only in our joys but also our sorrows. Many men I know want to hide away their unemployment-related issues from their loved ones for fear of troubling them.
However, I find that by sharing and engaging our loved ones with our problems, we are in fact cementing the relationship at home. rather than tearing them up. If a relationship is only founded on happiness and joy only then I think there is something wrong with the marriage.
A spouse who could not go through the storm with her husband during a crisis situation such as unemployment may need to rethink how she will want to approach the relationship. I have also heard of sad stories of how spouses snub their husbands when the men became jobless.
If spouses could not find support and solace from their loved ones at home in this severe downturn, then we really need to relook how we have approach marriages in our society.
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