My main support in my life is my husband. He is someone that I can go to. He listens to me, I can bounce ideas off of him and when I am having a bad day he can lift me up or make me see the upside to things. The past two months have been difficult for me because his job has taken him out of state. The support he now provides is by telephone and skype. It has been a struggle for me as I have to rely on telephone and work around his schedule in order to talk to him. We also have a 2 year old daughter that I am now raising as a "single" mom until we can be in the same household again. I know that in a few months are family will be back to normal again but if I couldn't see the end of the road I don't know what I would do without my husband. My life would be completely different with a different outlook without his support and guidance.
Eight years ago I moved out of state from the only home I ever knew and away from my family for the first time. They had been my support for the first 23 years of my life. It was hard not to see my family on a daily/weekly/monthly basis. I grew up surrounded with family always around. When I moved my support went from 30 people on a daily basis to just my husband on a daily basis.
In my daily work life I have the support of an organization. Within the organization there are many different supports. If one of the supports were to disappear or not having someone in the position for a long vacancy things begin to fall apart. We rely on supports to help us at our job and in life. When something happens to one of our supports - we can struggle, due dates get missed and our tasks can become longer.
In my personal life if I lost my husband I know that I would struggle with raising my daughter as a single mom. My husband and I take parenting head on as a team. We rely on each other. I don't even want to imagine what life would be if my husband was no longer around. I know that life would change drastically.
In my professional life I think about our organization and our accounting office and the work that they do. Our program operates off of grants. I currently oversee the day to day operations but our accounting office takes care of the administrative side - the grant reporting, paying bills and staff and processing all the fiscal issues. If this support were to disappear I would have to take on these new job duties. My job would take on new job descriptions and staff job descriptions would also change to ensure that everything was taken care of that our accounting office typically do.
