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saltandpepperSenior Contributor
Anyone else cracking open a bottle at 3 in the afternoon? Feeling shitty. I don't even know why really, just been feeling shitty alot lately. I shouldn't have started drinking, just one I tell myself, just one because I have to function tonight when my boy comes over... i just want to go to drink and pass out. Anyone around?
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saltandpepperSenior Contributor
Tried very hard to not cry at your messages but that one just broke me @Anastasia the truth is that I don't know I deserve to feel any better really. I got treated like shit, and then I treated people like shit. I'm not that person anymore, but I was, for a long time. As much as I might desperately wish someone like you were here with me, it wouldn't be fair. I'm too fu*ked up. I really don't know why it took so long for my ex to leave me. Maybe had some misguided idea that I was "fixable" or I'd get better in time. I can't change. I can't change what's inside of me. It hurts all the time. I'm miserable all the time. And fu*k the ofher night, feeling happy? I'd forgotten what that felt like. I wish it hadn't come back, now I remember what it feels like to live without all this shit in my head all the time.
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AnastasiaSenior Contributor
I do hear you, I really am so sorry 😟
I can't help but be thinking of all of the advice and love that you have showered on Centaur, myself and I am certain there are countless others here. I am still sitting with you my precious friend @saltandpepper, and I ain't going anwhere anytime soon, so you are stuck with me 🙂
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saltandpepperSenior Contributor
@Anastasia Thank you for staying with me. Love you as much as I can possibly love someone who I don't know 💙 I hope your kids just appreciate the absolute fu*k out of having you for a mum
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AnastasiaSenior Contributor
Feelings mutual @saltandpepper 🙏
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saltandpepperSenior Contributor
@Anastasia 💙
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AnastasiaSenior Contributor
still here @saltandpepper 
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saltandpepperSenior Contributor
@Anastasia 💙
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saltandpepperSenior Contributor
How was your day @Anastasia
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AnastasiaSenior Contributor
Hi @saltandpepper
I got really sad news today. My manager is leaving. I adore him. He's in my corner. I may/not have a job. I'm his PA on the flow chart to the ones making the decisions. If they keep me, I may not want it dependant on the changes that it will bring.
Otherwise I'm ok, thank you for asking
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saltandpepperSenior Contributor
Ah that's shit @Anastasia I'm sure it'll work put in your favour though, you've already been through enough hey
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