When we try to handle difficult times independently, because we won’t want to burden the people close to us, we forget that our happiness or lack of it affects the people around us too. If we feel 100% of the weight on our shoulders, those in our core inner circle feel at least 50% of it as a result of its effects on our mood, behavior and general state of well being.

Something that I had come to realize in recent years but had relegated to the back of my mind.

I was glad to be reminded of it again.