A few months ago I made the mistake of casually saying, so my wife, “maybe we should think about new cars.” Ever since, she has been looking and planning. 

Today we traded in my car and got a new one. I felt prepared and ready.  And I didn’t have a panic attack or have my anxiety shut me down. 

Our sales person was great, joking with us, chit chatting, having a pretty good time. So far no anxiety, just normal nervousness. 

Now here’s the hard part. So far no pressure. so I’m thinking, this is going to be a great day. It was actually the finance guy that was being pushy!  My wife, who doesn’t have anxiety, she’s my rock, said that she was getting so irritated and pissed off at him. We had to say no, listen to his pitch three times! Just take the no already! I was about to walk away, and say no deal.   

But I made it. Phew. I feel very stressed right now (still) but never hit that anxiety attack level! I’m pretty proud of myself. This is the first time EVER that I was able to make a large purchase without an attack. 

TL/DR: for the first time ever, I didn’t have an anxiety attack with a large purchase!