Management Lesson

I do the same thing.  My therapist used to call it "over-analyzing" because I can turn almost anything into a problem that needs to be solved.  Sometimes it is a relationship that I am afraid has soured (like with your wife.)  Funny but I used to think maybe I had done something to upset my therapist and she wouldn't want to see me anymore.   Even finding these "problems" becomes a problem.  Sometimes I start thinking about things like what I would do if suddenly I was the only person alive on earth -- how I would take care of myself, could I make it on expired medications, would I need to learn how to use a gun etc., -- and it starts going around and around in my head and I can't let it go.  For a while, I would go to bed at night and start thinking about this scenario and it would keep me awake for 2-3 hours or more.  I tend to think things to death before I can "let go" of them.  I just have to be aware of when this is happening and do my best to focus on something else.  And usually that works.

Best wishes.

Carolyn