When relationships disintegrate, it is very tempting to lose interest in practicality.  What’s a credit score when my marriage curls up and dies? Who gives a crap about laundry when everything I thought I wanted, thought I had, flies out the window?

However, the key to staying a afloat, to getting that internal rest from the stress of over-thinking and over-feeling is in maintaining these essential details. Maybe not as well as I used to.  I don’t blow through a pile of bills with the get-it-done gusto of yore, but hey, I’m in pain here! The point is to get the necessities done, as quickly as possible, to prevent personal landslide.  Emotions compiled with financial stress due to debt and job crisis due to lateness are far more difficult to overcome than emotions alone.  As my Super-Wise Choister Soul Sister, Kristen, advised me in the heat of one of my many crying spells last week, “relationships are only one segment of your life.”  When one segment goes to pot, the others still need care, perhaps better care than before.