I posted a joke on Facebook, that my wife drove off with another man to Reno. I thought I clarified: She went on a car trip. Her first stop was to pick up our younger son from college (the “other man”). Their next stop was Reno. If you’re connected to me on Facebook, you can see her photos from many places, including the Grand Canyon.

Am I Okay?

I heard from a friend that there are rumors about my well-being. One person asked on Facebook, “Are you okay?”  My answer:

This is hard to answer. I am working as hard as I can on this, trying to balance communicating- both asking for support and doing some marketing- and working on the software and the site contents. I try to keep on the healthy side of exhaustion and maintain healthy emotions, but am not always successful. I don’t want to seem desperate or in despair, and I re-center myself when those thoughts and feelings arise. Similarly, this is financially taxing, but we’re still eating and paying our bills. At the same time, I don’t want to be dishonest and say “Everything’s fine.”

The struggle

Entrepreneurship can be very taxing, especially for those who are neither wealthy nor young. The only thing that could be harder is for someone who doesn’t have good connections, which seems to be my case as well. Many things in my life are borderline in many ways – like my emotional and financial health and the health of my marriage. At the same time, I’m okay and I’ll make it.

I’m committed that my marriage survive, too, but it’s not completely up to me. This is very stressful on my wife. In December I estimated the launch would be in March and April and told her it would definitely launch by June 7th. Due to lousy off-shore software teams, the first “half” of the software wasn’t finished till early May. It was only 60% done and the quality was dismal. A third team proved useless. Since then, I’ve been working with a fourth team and have built or rebuilt many of the parts myself. We still have about two weeks of work left and I need to also finalize the site contents (questions, answers and the about/FAQ/etc pages). So there’s still a lot left to do to get to release 0.5.

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