Pretty much everything between leaving home at age 19 until retirement was the hardest thing I've ever done.
I didn't expect it to be difficult when I began. I considered it an "adventure".
But I don't regret it. I don't know how difficult the alternatives would have been.
This for me in spades.... if I had any idea how difficult it would be I would have folded....
But each battle, each set back, I just put my head down and moved forward.....
Despair is a horrible emotion!
For the time being life is better than it has ever been for me and I am trying to shake the feeling "until the next shoe drops"
Dealing with disappointment and set backs gets easier with age... you figure out what's important and what isn't.