Lonely at Home

Loneliness is not the absence of people, it is the absence of connection.

Third Act
Third Act
Nov 5 · 3 min read
Young man sitting in window bay looking out over the city.
Young man sitting in window bay looking out over the city.
Image Credit: PxHere

Loneliness had always existed. There was that time when I was sitting in the living room, looking at the drab wall ahead, with a feeling of dread. Dread that one day, I would be in this house, alone with my wife. A wife who was a stranger, a wife who spent more time on social media than talking to me, a wife that…

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Third Act

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Awakening, discovering who I am, reinventing myself. Childhood, marriage, and now post-separation/divorce. It is my third act. My best act so far.

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