You cannot outgrow another person. Life is not a competition. Life may change for you, as it does for everyone else. You may not like that changes. 

I used to work in the caring for others profession and I hated every minute of it. I feel that I wore a facad of caring on the outside but inside I felt like all these people in need were just wasting my time. I couldn’t stand having to socialize with them and I couldn’t stand having to help them. I didn’t fundementally hate them but I...

There are a few people here who reply to countless confessions hoping the confessor wrote it for them. That wouldn’t count as two people communicating, more like one self-centered person being hopeful, or mentally ill. There are PMs on EP for people who need to communicate in private. If they were really trying to communicate that makes sense. Leaving...

I could spend a lifetime researching a subject and praying for understanding. I could spend a lifetime thinking about it and debating it and I could come to understand many things, but if the conclusions I came to were not mainstream few would listen. Many would argue in anger and point their fingers and accuse me of being ignorant and a terrible person.It...

He drunk drives occasionally but it’s ok because he “doesn’t over-do it.” He gets drunk on the way home one evening and runs over an elderly person. Luckily the man only tore a ligament but obviously gets medics and police involved Dad gets his licence suspended and is thus unemployed for a year fabricates a martyr story about...