Dear Annie: I’m in a relationship with someone who has experienced a lot of personal losses throughout their life. Whenever that happens, I usually try to keep to myself and hold back my own feelings for a while to allow him to mourn.

Recently, an incident occurred at my job and I’m unsure if I will be terminated or not. I’ve been in limbo for the last few weeks in terms of my employment status. While I’ve been dealing with this, my partner lost a cousin. I have tried to be there even more for him this time around, but I’m still sad about my own situation.

Today, he yelled at me and told me I’m overreacting about “a job” and that I shouldn’t be more upset about that than he is about his cousin’s death. Since then, I’ve chosen to stay away from home as much as possible because I can’t con

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