oh, is it the end of the year already?
My biggest regret is that I dragged out a very unhealthy friendship/quasi-relationship with a cruel and emotionally manipulative person. At the start of the year, when I was just getting started with my therapist and learning to manage my social anxiety/possible autism spectrum disorder, I met a guy online who was really into me. Unfortunately, he turned out to be cruel, profoundly demanding, judgmental and manipulative. My therapist told me keeping in contact with him was detrimental to my progress, but I had a lot of difficulty keeping him at bay. Even worse, he was following my tumblr at the time so I didn’t have my only place to vent about it. I tried explaining the situation to him repeatedly, using as clear language as possible, but it took me several months to finally have all contact with him broken off. In that time he made me more frustrated, self-doubting and humiliated than I had been in years. Since getting him out of my life I’ve improved remarkably and am starting to regain some of that trust in myself. I’m hoping to get out and start socializing with people in the real world very soon.
In a related story, the best thing of the year (as my loyal followers could probably guess) has been the amazing promotion that has allowed me to move to the big city and follow my dreams. I get to travel, am highly compensated, and have a position that fits my strengths and allows me to influence others positively (and write food safety policy for one of the world’s largest companies!)
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