Second roller coaster ride (part 3)

[Sunflyer]

Doom scrolling social media. Twitter generally puts me in a bad mood as 80% of tweets are someone complaining. Complaining about politics, sports, economy, social issues, gun violence, urbanism, Elon Musk, Twitter itself, etc. And then I go to reddit. It used to be a source of laughter and fun. Now it seems to be FILLED with R and M problems. I think a big chunk of redditors are 30-45, and they are now going through D’s left and right. So every time I go on, I hear another 3-4 situations looking for advice, and the advice is ALWAYS divorce.

I'd be absolutely fine with all anti-social media (because that's what most of it is) dying in a fire. All of it. It has contributed hugely to the dumbing down of society everywhere and the fueling of anger and resentment. I only have an account with one of the major providers and sometimes I even regret that. I was never addicted to it and mostly used it to post family events, funny things the kids did, vacations, etc. Now I only post occasionally on it. I'll admit it can have positive uses. (I'm on a couple of groups related to my hobbies and am also on a divorce support group). But on balance, what a dumpster fire.

And it just makes me think of the two women I loved and married, and they both just quit without an ounce of effort with me. They both told me the same line at BD: “I have been trying so hard for so long to make it work.” Absolute bull****

I think a lot of us have been here. “I have been trying so hard for so long to make it work” is a justification proposed by the WAS, codespeak for "I've been putting up with this for a long time." Putting up with something and trying to make it work are, of course, not remotely the same thing.

Hope you're doing better.