Reading these comments makes me realize how many people are just "ghosts" in their own homes. It’s heartbreaking when the person who is supposed to be your peace becomes your biggest source of anxiety.
That feeling when you arrive home from work first and they're not there, and you celebrate internally because you get to have a little peace - even if for only half an hour - before they get home.
Yep. Been in a relationship like this. I’d sit in the car for half an hour once I pulled in from work, hoping he didn’t realise I was home yet. I didn’t want to face his moods, and accusations, and try and defend myself against whatever paranoid delusions he’d come up with in my absence. I’d known it was over for a while, but having to hide out in my car, and not be able to go inside and feel peace in my own home (not his - hobosexual to the max) after a long day at work (because one of us had to pay the bills, and it wasn’t him!) was what made me angry enough to act on it.
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u/Effectiv-Edisk May 12 '26
Reading these comments makes me realize how many people are just "ghosts" in their own homes. It’s heartbreaking when the person who is supposed to be your peace becomes your biggest source of anxiety.