If you have a job in these difficult economic times, you are certainly doing everything you can to keep it. If your boss wants you to work 50 hours per week, you will likely work 60 or more. Working longer could make you think you're getting more done, but every hour you work over 40 hours a week reduces your productivity, both in the short and long term. The "sweet spot" for best productivity, according to studies, is 40 hours per week.
How Does Working For Long Hours Make You Emotionally Unavailable?
When you labor long hours over some time, fatigue sets in. Sleepiness, exhaustion, poor focus, irritability, and increased susceptibility to sickness are all signs of fatigue following long workdays. This causes you to become emotionally available due to the fatigue.
Emotionally unavailability can be excruciatingly uncomfortable for someone who wants and is trying to form a personal connection with another person; whether it's short or long-term, it can be baffling. Being unable to express how you feel or appreciate your feelings might make things more difficult.
What To Do?
Make regular family time a priority.
Establishing established family time, whether one hour or dinner a week, will help you make memories that will last a lifetime. Whether it's party night, take-out evening, board night, or even a weekly farm bike ride, the important thing is that you set aside time for togetherness at least once a week.
Emotionally unavailability can be excruciatingly uncomfortable for someone who wants and is trying to form a personal connection with another person; whether it's short or long-term, it can be baffling. Being unable to express how you feel or appreciate your feelings might make things more difficult.
What To Do?
Make regular family time a priority.
Establishing established family time, whether one hour or dinner a week, will help you make memories that will last a lifetime. Whether it's party night, take-out evening, board night, or even a weekly farm bike ride, the important thing is that you set aside time for togetherness at least once a week.
Household Chores Should Be Shared
General household duties may be more difficult to do if everybody in the family participates in extracurricular activities or has outside responsibilities. Hold a family gathering to discuss how everyone will contribute to completing household duties. It's unjust to put all household obligations on one person's shoulders. It also makes it more difficult to prioritise family time.
Set Aside a Day for Your Family to Unwind
Everyone in the family must have frequent opportunities to unwind and reconnect, whether you plan a vacation trip, take one day a month to visit a nearby location, or schedule an innovation day for the entire family. Kids, like adults, are not immune to life's stresses.
They, like you, experience tension, frustration, bewilderment, rage, and tiredness. As a result, it's critical to schedule relaxing activities or downtime to relax and let go of their worries.
They, like you, experience tension, frustration, bewilderment, rage, and tiredness. As a result, it's critical to schedule relaxing activities or downtime to relax and let go of their worries.
Assistance With Schoolwork
There are several opportunities for children to practice their spelling words, math skills, and reading assignments when they are young. However, even as your children get older, there are still activities you can do to assist them. Why not sit alongside them and assist them when needed, rather than competing with academics for family time?
Quiz them on the topics to help them study for an exam. Alternatively, if your child is doing a research paper, take a seat with them and assist them in locating credible sources. Of course, you should not perform their homework for them, but assisting them and discussing their thoughts are excellent ways to bond.
Quiz them on the topics to help them study for an exam. Alternatively, if your child is doing a research paper, take a seat with them and assist them in locating credible sources. Of course, you should not perform their homework for them, but assisting them and discussing their thoughts are excellent ways to bond.
Begin a Pastime or Project With Your Partner
Working toward a shared goal of having a family project can open the door to great family time, whether it's reading a book as a family, building a birdhouse, collecting something, or committing to visiting all of the state capitals.
You're not only teaching your children the value of giving back to the community, but you're also spending quality time together doing something worthwhile. Helping people who are less fortunate, after all, instills kindness, boosts moods, and enhances thankfulness.
You're not only teaching your children the value of giving back to the community, but you're also spending quality time together doing something worthwhile. Helping people who are less fortunate, after all, instills kindness, boosts moods, and enhances thankfulness.
