You rang?

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

Patience

Cooperation

Deception

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!!

Go on…

Most beauty “influencers”

I watched them before they were “influencers”, and then I couldn’t trust the products they were using or recommending.