How Do We Manage Our Emotions?

Part of how we manage our emotions and rationalize things to ourselves is based on what we think we know or assume, or what others tell us. So my scenarios were all based on knowing within a week or two of this conversation. When scenarios unfold in ways that don't fit those predictions, it can trigger further anxiety. You keep shifting your predictions. And so for example, we will probably maybe be finding out just after their eldest daughter's birthday, and which was white at the end of may. We had to make a plan b, because my mam was taking care of the kids and the dog while we were away.