Everyone has different responses to adversity. Here's a post by an old friend that illuminated mine.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/life-lessons/2021/04/responses-to-adversity

I think I'm too insecure to have any romantic and sexual relations. I have people around me who really like me and want to spend time with me but I'm too fucking preoccupied with stuff we don't do instead stuff we do, making me feel unloved and ignored (fucking brain worms). How the fuck do I work this out? Plz halp

"Litia said it took her two years between realizing she was gay and telling me. At first that made me sad, because it seemed like an awfully long time to be lonely. But aloneness is the basis of transformation. Ever since the kid was born, I’ve never been more surrounded by people. I have also never felt more alone." —Richard Kelly Kemick for Maclean's

https://macleans.ca/society/living-with-my-ex/

NEW PAPER

#Childcare tasks that interfere with the workday (staying home with ill #children, dressing children, dropping children at #school/#childcare) are more often done by #mothers BUT #flexiblework for #fathers can help address the imbalance

https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.13112

In respect to Mental Health Awareness Month here's the first of two articles I've penned for May in hopes of letting others know they're not alone in their grief.
#mentalhealthawarenessmonth #mentalhealth #brokenhearted #relationships #open #poly #monogomy #lostlove #lovemeanyways #grief #writer

https://rickollie.com/2025/05/13/keep-chasing-pavements-or-give-up-on-love/

Wanted to spend some quality time with C last night. I put a film on but she just sat there scrolling on her phone at the opposite end of the sofa as though I didn’t exist. I turned the film off after 10 mins and went upstairs to leave her to it. So much for quality time. She does this nearly every time. Our relationship is pretty broken.
#relationships