Thank you for saying this 💔
Thank you for saying this 💔
Same for me, but 13 years. No one mentions the shame and isolation. I felt like a disease that no one wanted to be around.
If I ran into any old colleagues, it was clear they pitied me. The ones that did stay in contact just wanted the “gossip” (there was none), or wanted confirmation that I was somehow to blame so they could be comforted in knowing it won’t happen to them.
I “didn’t do anything to deserve this”, but it’s hard not to take it personally. The ruminating – trying to understand “why me, and not someone else” – hasn’t stopped.
The betrayal and shame is overwhelming.
I don’t subscribe to enough communities (yet) to have the luxury of sorting by anything other than “new”, or else I’ll run out of content
And/or it was messy
And thieves will steal from anyone, even the poor. It’s not like a clan of Robinhoods.
Yep, a “cost of living” raise is not a “raise”. I’m just making the same amount in today’s dollars.
I love me some frozen peas 😍
The “raise” I got that meant I wasn’t living paycheck to paycheck but it turns out healthy food is expensive
TIL. Thanks for that!
Is that the author? 🤯
Slightly different context, I suppose
Agreed. I wish the quiet ones had better ways to find each other. Reminds me of a poem I’ll try to dig up.
I feel this.
I don’t have any love for myself, let alone spare any for someone else.
Cherry certs were the best!!
Most beauty “influencers”
I watched them before they were “influencers”, and then I couldn’t trust the products they were using or recommending.
You rang?