Do you bring work stress home?

Lifestyle Relationships
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and if not.. does your spouse? or parents?

How does your work life stress impact you and your personal relationships?

Is it healthy or not to talk about work stuff at home?

Do you listen to your spouses talk about their work life. Honestly do you care? or just listen. Or chime in.

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If you share things with your wife/husband then one tends to share work stress too. It comes natural unless there is something you don't want your spouse to know.

If is healthy in one sense to release your stress by sharing. Your spouse may be able to give you emotional or moral support.

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He shares it with me, he will tell me about his day, but thats it.no stressing.

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Yes and no. Before it affected me a great deal. I have a horrible temper, first time back from the field, for 6 months I had a raging temper with limited control.

Now stress is not that much of a factor. Its the rest of the stuff that I have to deal with.

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I bring my stack of assignments home....to grade. And then I feel like screaming...and pulling my hair out....as I mark one x after another....for a lesson I spent a considerable amount of time teaching....and for directions i repeated several times....and for concepts I thought I had drilled till I was blue in the face. Fine...word problems can be tricky. But sometimes it's the little things......like how HARD is it to begin a sentence with a capital and end it with a punctuation mark...sigh.

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Now stress is not that much of a factor. Its the rest of the stuff that I have to deal with.
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Like what?

redvelvet - does your stress effect your relationships at home? or not?

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Coping mechanism. As I have highlighted before people deal with stress differently. In many ways its a gateway to addiction. I have to be vigilant to ensure that I release my stress in a healthy manner and not develop any untoward habits.

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I take home strees to work :hoonh:

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shabash!

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Not anymore. In my previous position, I couldn't get away from my work. I'd bring my files home with me every evening and weekend and I was stressed about the people who reported to me. All I did was complain to my family about clients and colleagues and employees.

I've since changed positions and have learned to how to leave most of my work stress at work. Obviously the odd work situation/deadline comes up as a topic of conversation/source of stress - but I'm not consumed by it like I was before.

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thankoo

and on serious note NO since I moved to corporate from consultancy. I leave my work at the desk in my room and dont think about it a bit till 7:30am next morning.

When I was at consultancy business, all of my work and worries used to go home with me to my home office. In fact that was one of the main reason to move to corporate.

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I calm down when I remind myself that I did the best that I could....and some things/factors are out of my control.

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These days, yeah I do. But I talk to my husband about it....he gives me advice and hes a really good listener..

I know people that whent hey're stresed out from work, they just take their bad mood out on their spouse and children....i dont think thats fair at all.

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He'll talk about his day when he gets back home. I do care. I do intently listen and i sure do give my two pence worth.

I think it's healthy. Everyone needs an outlet.

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**Never. My parents have never talked about work stuff at home.
Neither my uncles or aunties.
At least never in front of us :)

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Not really...because I've gotten used to my job and they're pretty understanding...and helpful if need be. My sister especially...and my mom as well... will listen when I feel like venting. I vent...and then get over it.

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My sisters say i'm only allowed to share 2 work related stories whenever I share. Usually they are quite entertaining so she doesnt mind so much.

I live alone though so if I do bring work home, it's only me that has to deal with it. When I do meet family and friends I sometimes cannot stop yapping about work related issues though...mainly stories, I very rarely call up friends and family to share stress though, they live too far away to make anything better, why hassle them.

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It happens occasionally. When I come home, if it needs to be talked about. I talk about it and then I feel much better.

Other times, if i encounter similar situation or related event then its not that bothersome and do my best to deal with it.

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Yes, I do.

My work is stressful on a daily basis for several reasons. I have too much work and responsibility, tight deadlines and a Supervisor, Director tag team that basically practice fear mongering and try to **** on everyone...especially me. It's to the point where every day in the morning I am in a bad mood till I get to work. Even waking up in the morning is a huge chore because I LOATH my supervisor and boss. They are the most evil people I have ever encountered in my life. I don't know HOW they actually sleep at night after doing what they do to me and others on the team.

It's affected so many aspects of my life, especially because there have been times where I lose my temper easily with my mother and I feel very bad about it....and also with my husband...often coming home from work I'm just not in a good mood at all. I'm ALWAYS TIRED and EXHAUSTED from work as it is so emotionally draining.

I don't talk to my husband about work related incidents all the time....I do sometimes and he will listen and give me advice...and his advice is always to stand up to the boss but its not feasable because my boss is the type that will **** on people more if they actually stand up for them selves. Basically we all just SUFFER SILENTLY and then have **ing sessions at lunch and on breaks...which in itself is UNHEALTHY because I cannot even think of one day in my 2.5 yrs at this job where me and my friend/co-worker did not ** about our supervisor and/or boss.

I've had one miscarriage and am not sure if it was due to the stress from work but feel that probably played a big part. I'm very scared I will have another miscarriage. We weren't trying at that time but we want to start trying in about 6 months or so and I am scared ****-less that I won't be able to conceive because of all this stress.

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I bring it home, sometimes. When I am stressed, I want to talk about it until I figure something out. Lately, it has reduced, because I know I am doing the best I can, while being willing to improve. I also understand my colleagues a lot better now, so it is easier.

Moi chum gets annoyed if I talk about a lot of stressful stuff with him. He has low tolerance for hearing me vent. So yes, that causes stress between us.

He deals with his stresses quite well. But if once in a blue moon, he is really stressed out and talks about it, I don't seem to be able to listen to it for too long. I don't see it as very relevant (also because of the nature of his job and his future plans regarding the job).

I usually try to listen. But as far as caring goes, I know he can handle his stuff. So, I don't get worked up over his work stress.

As for my parents, they don't really bring their work stuff home, unless there are serious issues going on. But I have seen my dad really stressed about work at home. The little while he worked for that company, it changed his personality. He was always stressed and my parents fought a lot more.