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So I’m at the end of my day and it was a very good one, I’ve got a lot of writing done. I got some knitting done and I’ve been relaxing with the dog and I got some self-care taken care of. And I thought I would maybe introduce myself and explain why I came to this app. I am middle-aged and I just cringed when I said that, but it’s the truth live in the basement of my home because I’m neurodivergent and it’s safer for my brain to live in a quiet atmosphere. I moved from the second floor to the basement in January 2025. I’ve been able to get better sleep be able to think be able to hear my thoughts, be able to write my articles share my opinions get a lot of things done that have been asked of me. My anxiety levels are down. My stress is virtually gone and it’s very very very satisfying knowing that I don’t weigh the world on my shoulders. I know with the pandemic a lot of people became homebodies. I was a homebody way before the pandemic so the pandemic didn’t bother me, I think my eBay addiction and shopping addiction got worse, but I’ve become satisfied with where I am for the most part in life. Even though I thought I would be somewhere much much different-I’m glad I am safe in my own home. When the pandemic was raging, I met this guy and I thought this guy was going to be my forever but it was a 4 ½ year ride roller coaster from hell dressed up as a daydream. Sorry, not sorry if that sounded like a Taylor Swift lyric. Being in a relationship with someone who was still in a relationship, but told you that they were not I look back and say, why was I so stupid? But I wasn’t stupid. I believed what I was told, and I didn’t have the mound of evidence that I was living with a two-faced narcissist until it was too late. When I say living with, I mean living in a situation with a partner who was living two lives. He had multiple relationships and I don’t think I was the only one he was fooling I wonder how many people he was lying g and unfortunately, fortunately, he is now married and is no longer my problem or anybody else’s problem except for his wife’s. But the question I have is why he keeps making social media accounts and doing whatever he does; I have been blocking them left and right since I left the situation in December 2024. Now it officially ended in November shortly after my birthday, but I gave him some grace time to see if he wanted to tell me the truth, he didn’t and there have been multiple accounts that have come up on TikTok Snapchat Instagram, I know this because I kept his phone numbers just because better safe than sorry And after everything, I went and safe than sorry. I don’t trust him or his wife or anybody else at this point unless I’ve known you for a hot minute. Aside from that relationship, which very well could be my last unless I find somebody worthy of me mind you I never would’ve imagined that I was gonna be the victim of catfish. Nor did I intend this to become a novel of a roller coaster but here we are. I joined Substack because I wanted something other than Meta. I have several apps that are not Meta related that I’ve been posting on that. I’ve been copying the link to my website which I started my website in 2014 because I’ve been a diary writer for many many years even before I put it online. I went from just sharing my experiences in life to sharing not only my experiences but also articles of interest to me. It was my way of keeping a history book and I feel like I’ve written it that way before. My personal history book. I’ve been knitting for over 30 years. I do not sell my projects. I’m a donation hobbyist and a yarn collector and that is where the eBay addiction came in the addiction came in when we had the pandemic there was nothing else to do and I have zero social life outside of the Internet for the most part. I say this because I don’t go out of the house more than two days a week unless it’s something special and when I say special, I mean, busy or appointments, etc. I try and pack everything into two days because I don’t like being in an environment where I cannot control the noise. It’s not that I don’t like being out in public.