@Umlaut Now I’m locked in to processing this in real time w/ you guys when I’ve been avoiding it, fleeing from it for a long time. It sucks, it’s depressing, it’s shitty, but it is what it is. From the start I only started talking about her because wanted you younger guys to look before you leap in YOUR lives. I thought it would be a nice couple month relationship at most before I headed back out into the world….and we ended up scabbing into the gauze of life when suddenly the economy is all-in on lockdowns and I’m “on call for next year”.
I knew I got myself into something painful after a while. It’s been shelved, this horrible, uncomfortable thing I don’t want to process, begging to be dealt with whenever things are quiet and I’m alone with my soul. I’ve brought it up w/ you all in bites and tidbits because, if nothing else my stupidity can serve as a learning opportunity.
You are all right to be mad, and offended because my high-minded ideals fail to materialize in the real world. Such is the ‘fate of all philosophers’, or however the saying goes.
(gonna devote more time to all this later, since I do like your input. Got some pretty big work stuff to hammer out so I’ll have to carve out quality time for poast (for once))