[Manbeline]

Thank you for all the wisdom. I am sure this will be helpful not only for myself, but for others like me who battle with the change of life that comes from essentially being mentally and financially independent. I also will have to inevitably accept that friends do not exist in reality. Simply passing acquaintances. I lived a huge lie throughout my life, and it is only now that I have to realize it. Fortunately, I am strong willed enough to not have to turn to bad vices or suicide to cope with it. Thank God I never went down that rabbit hole, though in the recesses of my mind, similar thoughts dared to surface.