Support Advice
My husband is just starting his surgery internship before we move back to our home state next year for his radiology program. He chose a surgery prelim year as he might want to do IR and figured it would be the most beneficial to his education, as well as this one is in a city we’ve always wanted to live.
However, he is feeling a lot of regret bordering on depression about ranking this program so high, because of the high demands of the program.
We’ve been together a decade, so not the first difficult thing we’ve faced, but I’m not sure I’ve seen him this bummed out about a choice or situation, and certainly never this trapped.
I’m just looking for advice on keeping your med partners afloat emotionally. What was helpful advice you received or something that kept them going?
He has hobbies he loves to do that I’ll keep him going to as much as possible, but just struggling to know what to say that doesn’t sound too much like either a hallmark card or a coach telling him to suck it up.