Letting Go – Day 22
JG: When you walked away, was it an instant feeling of relief?
C: I had lost so much weight; I couldn’t eat because of the stress. For me, that was pretty telling – I physically couldn’t eat – friends were saying you’re looking too thin.
A: There was relief when we came to the final outcome, knowing what we were going to retain. We weren’t entirely happy with it, but it meant we’d never have to see, speak to or deal with these people again.
JG: Having been through it together, has it changed your relationship?
C: Yeah, I think so. For us, it’s an economic crunch – there’s a financial cost to this disaster – I’ve seen other couples fall apart during similar situations, so it made a difference that we had each other to bolster up.
A: We’re pretty lucky because when Colleen is down and out, I seem to be on a high, and when I’m down and out, Colleen is on a high – we seems to balance each other out and balance the circumstance out – I think that’s part of the reason we made it through.
C: We were talking about it, too – for richer or for poorer – we’ve seen other crunches happen, other businesses fold. Investors swindled a bunch of people; a prominent couple, who were always in the papers, were affected by the swindles, and fell apart when they lost a whole bunch of money, their relationship couldn’t sustain that. For richer for poorer sounds good when you say it, but when you’re actually faced with it, it’s not so easy.
