I Feel Like A Failure

After a conversation with my mom about a particular hard time I was going through — deciding if I should shut down my start-up — I called my husband to vent. “I feel like a failure,” I said. And it’s true. After 2 years of working on my company, which isn’t a very long time in start-up standards, I was thinking about shutting it down. The decision was spurred by a combination of things, one of the important ones being my mental health.

Those 2 years are/were the worst of my life, although so many “great” things were happening to me. I got engaged and then married, accepted into a great…