Gonna try to be vague in my description lol.
Basically, I work full time currently. I struggle with a couple minor physical and mental health issues that make day to day things more challenging for me, but they’re chronic so nothing really new. However, my partner and I just took on a new project at home and, well, we’re a couple months in and it’s clear that this “project” is at least 80% my responsibility. After a few unsuccessful attempts to try to divide the workload a little more evenly, we finally decided that since my partner can afford to cover all of our living expenses, the solution that makes sense for us is me dropping down to part time so that I can better take care of myself as well as the greater demands we have at home now.
I emailed my boss and told her the above in more concise words, and she wants to chat on the phone about it next week. I’m worried about having to justify my reasoning about this, but I’m sure she’ll want to know because me dropping my hours is pretty inconvenient for my clients I work closely with.
Any advice on how to steer the conversation away from getting too personal or detailed while being nice about it?