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The Woman in Your Life: Time & Exhaustion
Pressure:
"What is the biggest obstacle facing the family right now? It is over-commitment; time pressure. There is nothing that will destroy family life more insidiously than hectic schedules and busy lives, where spouses are too exhausted to communicate, too worn out to have sex, too fatigued to talk to the kids. That frantic lifestyle is just as destructive as one involving outbroken sin. If Satan can't make you sin, he'll make you busy, and that's just about the same thing."
- Dr. James Dobson
"Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure."
- Tommy Lasorda
"Under pressure, one of the most important things I have to remember to do is breathe."
- Curtis Strange
"Pressure is what you feel when you don't know what is going on."
- Chuck Knoll
"Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche."
- Andrew Denton
"It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure."
- Albert Einstein
Exhaustion:
“We Americans are living a lifestyle of exhaustion. We don’t have time for ourselves, much less for each other and our children.”
– Dr. James Dobson
"Often, we ignore the fact that our spiritual condition and psychological state of mind are highly affected by what is happening to us physically. Sometimes depression is simply the result of exhaustion."
- Tony Campolo
"I can be so involved that I am no longer conscious of my needs or even of any pains. But there also have been many times when I felt the exhaustion - when it was physically painful, but I just couldn't stop."
- Alton Tobey
"I just want to be someone, to mean something to anyone." "I can never keep up." "There isn't enough time in the day." No matter what I do, it isn't enough." “I stopped speaking. There was no point trying to argue. There was no way she was going to even attempt to listen to me. They never do, do they? They never even try to listen to you.” "I'm exhausted even in my dreams, in my sleep. Then I'm exhausted when I wake up." "I just have to keep pushing." "I don't have anything left." "I'm too tired to workout. My body is starting to look ugly." "Why do other women look so 'together' when I feel exhausted all the time?" "All I do is buys work. None of it really matters." "I can keep up." "I can't get ahead." "It's so exhausting to know there is nothing I can do to fix things." "The kids are draining me." "I can never get away from stress and exhaustion." "It's useless." "No matter how much coffee or sleep I get it isn't working." "I try to be strong, but it isn't working." "What is wrong with me?" "I feel like I'm just existing." "Sometimes I just want to sleep all day."
Some of Her Inner Thoughts . . .
Men and women alike are exposed to stress, pressure, and exhaustion, whether they be work or family related. Men often find physical outlets to relieve pressure and stress, while women often "stay inside their heads" when it comes to the matters or pressures and exhaustion. It is important that men understand this and be both sensitive and supportive to the realities of pressures plaguing the woman in their lives that lead to fatigue, even exhaustion.
Some Quotes . . .