Thank you for sharing your path, and helping me feel less alone/cutthroat in my approach to “cleaning house.”

I think part of it for me, too, is that I spent a LOT of time alone during the first year of the pandemic, and learned that I rather like my company and have plenty of interests to sustain me, so risking safety to hang with people to who I didn’t feel a strength of connection, just for the sake of not being alone, was no longer enticing.

Fulfilling relationships only! (Whether that's with ourselves, or people to who we do have a strong connection.)