My hands are so beat up with lesions and cuts, and my skin is so thin and dry, I decided to use gloves to wash the dishes. It seemed prudent and responsible.
The first dish flew out of my hands, and crashed all over the floor. It was one of the big cereal bowls from my set. The set I grew up with. I had to concentrate really hard to think "it is just an object. do not let this make you fall apart. do not cry."
This is the second time today I had to do that. I had the same feeling, and response when I cut my finger, right under the fingernail, on the edge of a cardboard box. Cardboard cuts me! That’s how thin my skin is.
you need better gloves. check the korean market for these big orange ones that are super grippy.
I second the grippy gloves, those things are so sticky you can’t drop anything because it all sticks to them.
I am really clumsy with dishes- so much so that I have a really cheap set I bought at ikea because I break probably a dish a week . . it might be worth it to keep from inducing the tears (I keep my grandmothers dishes on the high shelf for that very reason 🙂