As someone who often feels lonely and depressed, one of the things I've needed most is local friends. My depressing and apparently needy nature drove away a couple of people I had considered good buddies and I was basically left with no local support network.
I am pleased to report not only making a new friend but turning it into a friends with benefits situation.
This is a first for me; I'm in the process of divorcing the woman I'd been in a long-term relationship with so FWBs are new to me. The friend is a young woman who works at a crisis and suicide prevention hotline and suffers herself with depression (probably worse than mine, in fact), so she "gets it" about depression and how it can affect people and their actions.
On the face of it, it appears the FWB situation is ideal: all of the fun with someone super cool, with none of the associated drama and/or responsibility. I'm sure it's much more complicated than that, but I can say that yesterday was the first time in a long time I found myself in a good mood.
Now let's just hope I don't fuck this up right away.
I am pleased to report not only making a new friend but turning it into a friends with benefits situation.
This is a first for me; I'm in the process of divorcing the woman I'd been in a long-term relationship with so FWBs are new to me. The friend is a young woman who works at a crisis and suicide prevention hotline and suffers herself with depression (probably worse than mine, in fact), so she "gets it" about depression and how it can affect people and their actions.
On the face of it, it appears the FWB situation is ideal: all of the fun with someone super cool, with none of the associated drama and/or responsibility. I'm sure it's much more complicated than that, but I can say that yesterday was the first time in a long time I found myself in a good mood.
Now let's just hope I don't fuck this up right away.