Do deep dives on random topics, like recycling plastics at home, count as me time?
All of that research feels like work, but it is satisfying somehow--except I keep trying to find solutions to big problems and concluding that we are doomed.
Then there are the games that I play that I describe as "Like work," but those are also satisfying somehow.
I enjoy making things, even if it is virtually.
Also, I talk to many ladies on-line, but I have been spinning in that wheel for 20 years.
I am sure that if I told a therapist about all of the things that Mom does and says the therapist wouldn't say "Suck it up forever and act happy," but instead "Your mom is emotionally abusive, you need to move out."
I am sure that Mom would have many opinions about my counselor's credentials.