I'm hurting so badly that I want to crawl out of my skin. I'm itchy all over and I know it's psychosomatic because the exact location keeps moving around. The humidity has been more livable than usual lately, so I don't think it's just dry skin. I have been using more lotion than any one human should need, though, just in case. It's also just a little calming to get the tactile stimulation.
I keep having these grief attacks where I'm trying to identify what I need, and the answer is always that I need the one person who could really help me. He didn't help me by doing stuff, although he definitely did a lot of practical things to help. It was more about having another person to eat with, and to have two of us in one bed. Sex is nice; I think I enjoy it more than most, but it's actually more important to share a meal, talk about nothing important, and drift off to sleep with someone complaining about my snoring...
So, yeah. I see I can still make little jokes even when I am taking breaks every few seconds to wipe the tears away. The thing is the crying. It's bad, like I have to cover my mouth to stifle the screams for fear of having a neighbor call in a "wellness check" on me, aka have the police come put me in
hell a psych unit for 72 hrs. I need to get in better shape. This is too physically demanding.