Entangled with Separation Anxiety

Hello everyone! I actually don’t have any idea what to write today, so let me tell you something totally random, like my dilemma every night time with my cutie patotie clingy nephew.

Last September, my sister’s husband left for work overseas. It was a blessing because they’ve been so hard up for the past couple of years when the company he worked with in Dubai stopped its operations because of the pandemic. While the mom and my nephew were adjusting, they’ve decided to live with us here in Iligan City, like usual. They arrived the second week of September from La Union, and we’re all happy, because my nephew is adorable to be with (and the mommy is a good cook, lol!).

However, since then, it seems that my nephew is having separation anxiety sleeping without his daddy. Mind you, he has been always jolly and typically energetic as always. The only problem for me was every night during his bedtime, he kept on insisting that I should sleep beside him with his mommy. And, he would cry or get mad if I didn't sleep with them. So, the kind “tita” would pretend to sleep and sometimes fall helplessly asleep because sometimes work in the daytime is tiring! 

So, I got entangled with this separation anxiety kind of crisis with my nephew, and though I started loving it because it helped me tuck in bed earlier. I’m just sad that I’m starting to have less time writing and engaging here. Oftentimes, I would return to my room at around 11.30pm or past 12 midnight already. Then, when I started to recollect my thoughts to compose something, my mind would instead do otherwise. Yes! My sleepyhead would pull me back to sleep. Though, sometimes, I try to force myself to write something, and while scribbling some old unfinished drafts, and try my hardest to publish, later then my mind would end up active again and it seems that my sleep hormones just left my senses. Sigh.

The past night, that was Monday perhaps, I’m really struggling to go back to sleep after waking up from my slumber at 1am. I think it was already past 3am when I was able to sleep again, and it was an agony to deal with at work. I was really sleepy the entire day, I got a headache and was very unproductive with my online hassles. Well, obviously, can't cope up with my pace lately.

Anyway, I love to hang out with my nephew as much as possible because I miss him dearly. Among my nephews, he is the only one very clingy to me because I used to babysit him so often when he was younger. So, I guess we have that bond. Still, I’m hoping that this separation anxiety crisis disappears sooner, because this erratic sleeping habit is just making me out of sorts, unhealthy.

Thanks for reading guys and I definitely need to sleep now. Hopefully, I need to decipher time and priorities to get back on track away from this irregularity. Ciao!

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10/05/2022

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