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How My Mother Destroyed my Confidence...out of Love
It was my severely overprotective mother. Of course she loved me, and did it out of love....but she took away the very thing that made me fearless, gave me some much needed confidence. This article is a summary of what happened...because my mother loved me...
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I'm Failing at my Volunteer Job
I'm a patient support volunteer in an infusion room for a cancer specialist foundation. I feel like I'm failing at this. Like I spend most of my time there doing nothing. This article examines how being too timid to bother any of the nurses with questions...is causing me to fail.
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Why Won't Anyone Save me?
I was a victim for my entire life until recently. I wanted others to feel sorry for me. Because I wanted someone to "save": me...from the problems that I created
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When It Hurts to Have Sex....yet There's Nothing Wrong Physically
Vaginismus is when a woman's vagina has uncontrollable contractions during sexual intercourse, making it extremely painful. The worst thing is to not enjoy what you're, by nature, supposed to.:sex. I had this, and here is my story of how it made me feel, and how I finally got over it..
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How I Really Feel on My Birthday
Sure I am feeling sorry for myself, and this essay will help you understand why. I always tell people that my birthday is just an other day. That it doesn't matter to me. Basically giving others the okay to ignore it...Although I don't want gifts...I just want a happy birthday. That's all.
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I Was Living With a Rat!!
When I was in my 20's I lived in an apartment that I ended up hoarding...which made me miserable, but it was too overwhelming to clean...and too embarrassing to have anyone over. I was stuck. Paralyzed. I was a level 1 hoarder. This is not my apartment pictured but should give you an idea of it.
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Why I Need a Break From Social Media
I hate social media, yet I'm always on it. It's addictive. I go on it, scroll through, get annoyed by the things that people post., wonder why I'm still on it... It's a vicious cycle.
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How I Became Homeless, and How I Got Out
I was technically homeless with a roof ever my head for a few years, Because of some really dumb decisions. This article tells of how I got there and how I finally got out...
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Finding a Friend Who Truly Understands You is Priceless
I have lived a complicated life. I have also made some horrible, life altering mistakes. For that reason, I've never opened up to anyone. Because I knew that no one would understand. I was sure if that.
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When you Have no one...Then Suddenly you Have Someone Special
I Have been living this way for my entire adult life. Since it's been totally my fault...I can't talk to anyone about it because most wouldn't know how to process it all. Most would be thinking; "OMG, really?? You made the worst decisions, you deserve to be depressed..."
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I Just Learned That What I Thought Was Just a Very Uncomfortable Situation, Was Sexual Abuse
I've just learned that my father unintentionally sexually abused me when I was a child. He never laid a hand on me sexually. This article tells of what happened, how it affected me, and how I am dealing with it...or trying to deal with it...
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Inappropriate Things That my Parents Shared With me..
When you grow up assuming your parents behavior is normal...but you feel uncomfortable with it....but you think it's normal and that other parents do the same...it messes up your mind long term
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Overthinking Can Create Problems That Didn't exist Before
Over thinking can create problems that don't exist. This article examines how it affected my life, and how I'm trying to resolve it.
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Why Do We Sometimes Go Overboard When We Like Someone?
When someone I'm going to potentially date, pays too much attention to me, or likes me, or wants me too much, it ends up being a turn off. This essay will explain a little further what I mean
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A Letter to my Child Self, as If I Were My Parent
This is a good exercise for anyone who never dealt with trauma that happened to them as a child,. Or for anyone who's parents didn't give them the tools to go out in the world, or more plainly to be an adult. Or to believe in themselves. And this is what happened to me...
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The Hollow Feeling of Loneliness
Once we admit to being lonely, the loneliness surfaces, and it's a deeply stabbing pain. It's awful
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Retraining Life Long Thought Patterns
This article examines life long thought patterns, how I've dealt with them, or am still trying to deal with them
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A Lifetime of Doing Nothing, Can Drive Us Mad
I did absolutely nothing for 10+ years. I did this to myself. This article examines my thought patterns then and now
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Broken Siblings
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The Word That Best Defines Me Is Fear
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My Normal Is a Different Normal
This essay is about what's become normal to me....
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The Guy With the Bizarre Making Me Orgasm Fetish
Why did I Tolerate This ?
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Why 10 Years of Online Dating Has Left Me Feeling Burned Out
No one should try to force anyone else to feel a way that they just don't
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Why Would Anyone Choose a Life of Misery?
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S'More's! No Bake
If you like S'more's, these are great, and they're so easy. Oven not required.
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The Best Low Fat Cream Cheese Frosting
Have you ever made a cake, weather, high fat, or low fat, but you just didn't know what kind of frosting to put on? Well creame cheese frosting goes good with so much, and this one is low fat, so keep some extra around, for just in case.
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Emotional Abuse, or just anger?
Emotional abuse, many think of as anger. It's not. It's an uncontrollable rage. That can't be reasoned with. The individual has to be helped. And by only a qualified individual. We are not qualified. We're way to subjective.