Currently, my main supports are my
husband, my mother, my church, my close friends, and my mother-in-law. My husband provides emotional, practical, and
physical support. My husband is also my
best friend and he provides me with emotional support whenever I need it in
addition to practical support through monetary support. Since I am healthy I do not require much
physical support however, he does provide me with physical support when I need
since he is taller than me. My mother, my
church, and my friends provide me with emotional support. My mother-in-law provides me (and my husband)
with practical support in the form of monetary support since my husband cannot
work right now due to a disability. These
supports provide me with numerous benefits such as having someone to talk to,
reducing stress, helping me overcome challenges, and having the opportunity to
go back to school.
My life would be very difficult
without these supports. I would probably
be very stressed out, unhealthy, and unhappy.
I would be stressed out and unhappy because I would have no outlet for
expressing my feelings and no way to receive love or comfort.
The challenge that I chose is
complete loss of monetary support. If I
lost the monetary support from my husband and mother-in-law my life would be
radically different. Without the
monetary support from my husband, we would have no way of paying our
bills. Last year my husband and I moved
in with my mother-in-law because her husband had recently passed away and she
did not like living alone. The move also
helped my husband and I because my husband injured his back on the job and I
was laid off due to school budget cuts.
Without the monetary support that my mother-in-law provides, by giving
us a place to live, I would have to drop out of school and settle for whatever
job that I could find since no one is currently hiring elementary school
teachers in my area. I would probably also
be unhealthy because the monetary support that I currently have enables me to
maintain a gluten-free diet due to my wheat allergy/celiac disease, so I would
be sick all of the time. Fortunately, I
would continue to receive emotional support from my husband, my mother, my
church, and my close friends who would help me deal with the stress that this
change would bring.
