I have the most amazing friends
May. 6th, 2019 04:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livSo, it's been a little over a month since my partner set off on a long roadtrip. Since then, an amazing collection of people have been extra nice to me.
Starting off with my other partners who are still around in Cambridge. Not only have they been extra supportive, but we've been spending more time together the three of us. Chatting, eating together, playing both board games (mostly Scythe) and multiplayer computer games (Stellaris).
But also, when I reached out and said I was feeling lonely and abandoned, I was absolutely bowled over by how many people jumped in with specific plans to spend time with me. I've had an evening of board games with two friends, an afternoon of tea and wittering with another. And I have plans for an evening show with yet a third friend this week. I've had some really nice lunches with my metamour. All people I don't see enough of because the logistics of a large polycule including two children at the stage where they're old enough to have busy calendars but young enough to need adults to take them to their activities. I certainly don't want to give up my logistically complicated and family-focused life, but it's really nice that when I'm missing some of my people, I get something else positive in the form of excellent one-on-one social things.
I spent an absolutely glorious couple of days with one of my favourite people who lives the other side of the country, chatting, eating afternoon tea, poking about in charity shops and generally relaxing. One of my London friends came to Cambridge for one of those amazing visits where we spent the whole afternoon and evening chatting and drinking tea, and another came up to join us for last night of Passover. One of my best friends who lives on another continent went to lots of effort to arrange a long and really cheering phonecall.
I could not be more grateful to all the people who've made plans with me! I've been not fitting in online socializing via DW, mainly because Passover ate my life for several weeks rather than because I was too busy seeing in person friends. So hopefully that balance will shift in the next few weeks.
Although not immediately, because next week I'm going out to Europe to visit my travelling partner! We get a whole week of living together, and I'll get to see the children again, and it will be amazing. Actually the last month has been less painful than I feared; we have been managing to keep in touch by email and text and phonecalls, sometimes just us two, sometimes including the children. And partner has been really good about reassuring me.
So yes, life is good, and I have a huge backlog of stuff to post about, so hopefully I'll get to some of that soon. Thank you all for continuing to exist in my computer and tell me about your lives and thoughts, even while I'm not as responsive as I'd like to be.
Starting off with my other partners who are still around in Cambridge. Not only have they been extra supportive, but we've been spending more time together the three of us. Chatting, eating together, playing both board games (mostly Scythe) and multiplayer computer games (Stellaris).
But also, when I reached out and said I was feeling lonely and abandoned, I was absolutely bowled over by how many people jumped in with specific plans to spend time with me. I've had an evening of board games with two friends, an afternoon of tea and wittering with another. And I have plans for an evening show with yet a third friend this week. I've had some really nice lunches with my metamour. All people I don't see enough of because the logistics of a large polycule including two children at the stage where they're old enough to have busy calendars but young enough to need adults to take them to their activities. I certainly don't want to give up my logistically complicated and family-focused life, but it's really nice that when I'm missing some of my people, I get something else positive in the form of excellent one-on-one social things.
I spent an absolutely glorious couple of days with one of my favourite people who lives the other side of the country, chatting, eating afternoon tea, poking about in charity shops and generally relaxing. One of my London friends came to Cambridge for one of those amazing visits where we spent the whole afternoon and evening chatting and drinking tea, and another came up to join us for last night of Passover. One of my best friends who lives on another continent went to lots of effort to arrange a long and really cheering phonecall.
I could not be more grateful to all the people who've made plans with me! I've been not fitting in online socializing via DW, mainly because Passover ate my life for several weeks rather than because I was too busy seeing in person friends. So hopefully that balance will shift in the next few weeks.
Although not immediately, because next week I'm going out to Europe to visit my travelling partner! We get a whole week of living together, and I'll get to see the children again, and it will be amazing. Actually the last month has been less painful than I feared; we have been managing to keep in touch by email and text and phonecalls, sometimes just us two, sometimes including the children. And partner has been really good about reassuring me.
So yes, life is good, and I have a huge backlog of stuff to post about, so hopefully I'll get to some of that soon. Thank you all for continuing to exist in my computer and tell me about your lives and thoughts, even while I'm not as responsive as I'd like to be.
