I kept hinting to my wife that something is probably happening, but her being the type that worries about everything, I was just kind of very subtle with it, hopefully make it work and kind of start moving into her thought process. And she honestly did not know until the day when I came home at 10:30 in the morning with the box that, you know... I said, 'Hey, I'm starting outplacement on Monday, and we're going to work through this.'
I'm doing everything that I'm told to do, that I'm trained to do, but yet, for whatever reason, it's not happening. And you still keep looking back at yourself, thinking, 'Am I saying something wrong? Am I saying too much?' So you keep trying to psychoanalyze everything to the point where you can drive yourself nuts.
And like I say, for the last two months, I've ... I don't want to say I've given up, but I've just kind of taken a break from all the stuff that I've done before, thinking I need to regroup. I need to get my head straight. I need to clear everything out. And so that's what I've done for the last two months, but yet everyday you feel guilty: I should be doing this. I should be calling. But then you get to the point where you run out of people to call.
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