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by em-bee 1489 days ago
this is indeed a challenge. when you have no friends who take you really seriously, when you have no-one who can give you a frame of reference to your situation, when the issue is sensitive that you can't really talk about all the details with everyone, and you have no-one who you can trust with those details...

it's almost impossible to get out of that. you really need that friend that can validate your feelings and can help you confirm that you are taking the right steps to get out of that problem, especially when those steps are counter your intuition, or counter to what you think everyone else around expects from you.