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Humm. How to deal with people who drain your energy. Well, I would tell you if I wasn't so exhausted given that my husband and children have been draining all my mental and physical reserves all day! Seriously, It is very late, but I think I have a few ideas on that subject that are worth putting off that big, soft, snuggly, bed of mine right now, so...

First of all, I would like to say that all who drain your energy are not bad, and those (the ones who need you) are the focus of this article. There are many different ways to drain a person's energy. There is the usual physical drain of energy and then there is the worst of them all, the draining of a person's emotional energy. One of the best ways to emotionally drain someone is to deplete their patience. This usually leads to a lot of pent up anger, which just spurts out of you at the most inappropriate moment. The unleashing of pent up anger that also taps your physical energy, will ultimately leave you with close to nothing.

For example, after a day few full days with my five and three year old after they have been spoiled rotten by their grandma for a day or two, my patience is running dry, even the reserves. They come back into the home environment thinking the rear kissing will continue. Then as my husband enters our home, usually late, and after the witching hour has already come and gone causes some of that frustration to rise within me. The witching hour, by the way, is the time of day around four to six pm where small children tend to lose their minds and start to take on the primal appearance of a barrel full of monkeys.

So anyway, here comes dad...sees mom, ragged, and tired from the preschool escapades which can be anything from in house football, using your little sister as the ball of course, sneaking into mommy's closet and run a muck, or just pretend to play quietly while they are really destroying their clean rooms (cleaned earlier by me of course). So by the time dad arrives, one of the first comments is "What happened here?" or "Why didn't you clean the house?" Now neither of these comments are what causes the largest drain on what is left of both my reserves, both emotional and physical (physical due to the energetic response from me for the premature and callous comments made by dear old dad). It is not that I don't love my husband to death, I do. It is just that he just has the tendency to speak before he knows what has transpired that day and just judges me based on the circumstantial

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