Imperfectly Parenting, Husbanding, and Entrepreneuring with Depress...

Imperfectly Parenting, Husbanding, and Entrepreneuring with Depression and Faith

Welcome to imperfect parenting, marrying and entrepreneurship online through depression and faith here with me, Jerry Banfield. I'm grateful for the chance to share something I imagine will be helpful for you today because this is a really personal story from my life that I obviously would rather just keep to myself.

Imperfectly Parenting, Husbanding, and Entrepreneuring with Depression and Faith

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I realized today that while what I pay attention to does grow, at the same time, if I want to help you, I need to share the stories in my life.

So here I go.

Let me put this in context first.

I have an absolute dream life. I'm in my studio in my backyard, doing what I love right now. I have a beautiful wife, two wonderful children, a boy and a girl. I have two dogs, we have our own home. We have two cars. We have an absolute American dream going on.

That doesn't mean I don't get to experience the normal growing pains and conditions, especially internally of a human being. In fact, sometimes it makes it more difficult because I look around and I say, "There's no reason I should feel depressed in the middle of heaven. How insane must I be to feel depressed in the middle of heaven? How crazy do I have to be, to be upset with my beautiful, wonderful angel of a wife?"

Imperfectly Parenting, Husbanding, and Entrepreneuring with Depression and Faith

That's the nature of this thing, just imperfectly being me and it's okay.

Especially as an entrepreneur online, I feel a lot of pressure that I can't show up and do anything at work unless I'm in a good state of mind because if I do show up and I'm a disaster, whatever I create will just be awful and in these times it is better for me to just not do anything than to show up and be a total disaster.

With this in mind, let's look at the last few days.

Normally, my marriage is extremely happy, very well-functioning. I feel like I'm professional at being married lots of times. Our life, our transitions, the way we handle things, it's smooth and graceful almost all the time.

So, let's look at the exception because the exceptions are more interesting, and it's Thursday morning now.

On Tuesday morning, I woke up and I shared my idea to do Airbnb experiences in my home office studio with Laura, who is my wife.

She was completely opposed to this because it involves having people come over to our house, maybe on a daily basis, having different people come over and be in the studio. She feels this is our territory, our home and she feels the disturbance of having the people come in there.

Read more on my website at https://jerrybanfield.com/imperfectly-parenting-husbanding/.

Love,

Jerry Banfield

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