Recent content by Toronto guy

Thank you for sharing your story here. I hope that this space provides you with continued courage and support. it seems like someplace where you might be able to catch your breath a little knowing you aren't being judged by what you've gone through. Speaking for myself, even just a little...

My wife is leaving for similar reasons, the inexorable and creeping isolation, and I thought it might help somehow for you to know it's happening to someone else. She is a wonderful and strong person, and in order to keep sane and be present in the world she needs space away from me. Strangely...

That is a hard thing to have happening, what you expressed seems familiar to me. You are deserving and have someone here who is sending warm and supporting thoughts your way today.

@hodge Thanks for the welcome:)

Hello, to any and all who are reading this. I'm new and feeling ambivalent about sharing. Part of me wants to and another doesn't want to yet. I'll go with the latter for now. Suffice to say, I joined yesterday and already feel a bit more normalized by the existence of this space. Sorry you're...

New here. And about to start a long journey, or so I am beginning to understand. I am the father of two lovely and sensitive boys whom I love dearly. My triggers from years of severe childhood abuse have led to the collapse of two marriages. Are there any women or men out there with similar...

I can relate... I am most comfortable in my own company and value it. Protect it, even. But I also long to be able to connect on social levels without feeling so drained -- I find that hard to reconcile, the desire to be more present socially and the reaction it provokes.