Work has been crushing me lately and I feel like I'm not present for my family when I'm home. I'm going through the motions, making dinner, helping with homework, but I'm not really there. My wife asked me yesterday if I was ok and I almost lost it. Don't even know what's wrong exactly, just feel empty most days. Anyone else dealing with this?
That's a hard place to be. I'm dealing with something similar right now. The guilt of not being present is almost worse than the actual stress sometimes. You're doing better than you think though.
You're not alone in this. Work stress bleeding into family time is the worst feeling because you can't turn it off even when you want to. Have you thought about talking to someone about it?
Real talk, the quiet morning hours saved my life when I was in that headspace. Even just 30 minutes before everyone wakes up to breathe makes a difference. Might be worth trying.
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The holding it together feeling is so real. For me I had to actually block off time where I wasn't checking emails. Sounds simple but it actually helped my headspace when I'm home.