Snap back to reality... Oh, there goes gravity.

How do you react when you find out a friend is going through some really bad mental struggles?

Struggles that may have cost them their wife?
or put them in jail?
or a job?

When they seemed so good! One day they just ... snap.

What causes that so dramatically? Can it happen to anyone?


It never helps to read the news or the comment section adjoining it. That in and of itself is bad for the mind.

My question is now what can I do about it?
How can I help?

I had a good day today.
it wasn't as productive as I'd've liked but it was good.

Talked to friends.
Talked to my girlfriend.
Designed.
Played Music.
Family time.

But then my dog ate my ear buds and I nearly lost my mind.
I suppose that answers my previous inquiry.. about how one can snap.

It's easy to snap.
But you can come back.
You can always come back.

You just need the right environment to grow.

Wobbly knees, Stormy seas

When you're in a relationship you go through many trying times.
But perhaps a big one is the long distance thing.

Long Distance is really quite difficult to maneuver especially when you both receive love in a different way than the other.

For example, my girlfriend and I have been dating for some bit of time short of 6 months at this point.

She is a physical love kind of person, meaning she gives her love via touch, and also receives it via touch.

I, however, give love through verbal communication, I also receive it that way.

Very different people.

I jump into a relationship with both feet right off the bat, I say I love you really quickly and I also tend to reveal my emotions and every emotion at the slightest wink of movement. I wear my heart on my sleeve quite accurately.

She on the other hand, seems to be more reserved, more meticulous. She doesn't speak through emotion, she speaks through practical education and observation.

Teaching me patience.

Which is hard.

We talked today, and not for the first time, I brought up the fact that I need to be reassured that she's still willingly involved in this relationship because if I'm not checking in... then I don't know.

And that's troubling.

or is it?

I keep wondering if I'm overthinking this whole situation because I have massive insecurities that she's going to leave me and that she's not going to like me anymore. I have major personal doubts about her feelings for me.

I feel distressed..

But should I...

Is every relationship like this?

I feel good about this and I feel great about her.

But I don't feel loved.

Is that a problem?

Or do I just need time?

My patience is lacking and maybe that's the problem.

It probably is...
because
good things take time.

Good things take time. I have to remember that.

Be honest, but fair, and never listen to doubt.