I’m thirsty for friends. It’s embarrassing. I’m far too old to be courting acquaintances like some middle school girl at Claire’s, harassing strangers for their opinion on $5 earrings. But here we are.
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Personally, I didn’t have a lot of friends to start with, partly because I’m an introvert and partly because my own lockdown started three years before everybody else’s. (In 2016, I had a special needs baby and switched to remote work to better handle that new life. Once my baby was old enough to tolerate a babysitter, I jumped straight into a medically horrific second pregnancy, where I was bedridden for months. And my second newborn was just finally ready for a babysitter in — you guessed it — March 2020. I haven’t left the house in six years.)
How to pay off your emotional debt
We are able to buffer intensely stressful experiences by repressing our emotions in the moment (sometimes subconsciously). We save “feeling our...
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