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Hello my name is Zach and I came to 7 cups to get some help dealing with all my stuff and to help others if I can a long the way. I have been though some rough time in past few months going as far back to nov of 2019.

hope you all had a great weekend

I'm Leah, I'm 20 years old and just got married a couple months ago. I'm struggling with severe insecurity and distrust. I have a hard time making friends and feeling trapped by people. I don't know how to communicate my boundaries in a healthy way without fear of hurting someone's feelings.

Hi, AJC here. Married 18+ years. Zero emotion, zero affection, zero intaamacy, zero touching for over 9 years. When I bring up the subject, I get the most hateful disgusting looks. I have not cheated, but often thought about it. She went through menopause soon after our 14 year old son was born. Tough situation, I really love her. But the lack of any kind of intamacy or emotions is causing me to be resentful and always in a crappy mood. She's had a job for 9+ hears that up until covid 19 allowed her to travel once a month. Every time she came home, I felt the comparisons to people she'd met. Has she heated? She swears not. Says I'm her one and only. Just keep my distance. There's even a pillow between us in bed. Getting real tired of taking matters into my own hands.

Hi guys! I am Kiki and I am 17 years old. I decided to be part of this group because I was struggling with friends. Especially in high schools, it is sometimes difficult to make friends if you are not cool like them and I need to know more about relationships. I am happy to be there with you all and I look forward to knowing everything !!
I am ready to help tho !!

Hi guys, I'm Ally. I joined this group to get a different perspective as well as to share my experiences with friendships and relationships. I'm they type of friend who is always taking the initiative to check in on everyone, give encouragements, listen without judgment and hold your hands through difficult situations. But most of my friends do not or barely reciprocate. This is getting very frustrating. It's the same in relationships, I give too much and they take too much but where is the reciprocation? So, I'm single right now and contemplating on whether I should talk to my friends for the millionth time on how I need their support as well or just walk away from everyone. Everyone has a breaking point and I'm reaching mine.

@ASilentObserver

Hello everyone! I'm excited to be a part of this community and see where this journey takes me! It's great to meet all of you!

I look forward to learning more about this community and gaining more insight and advice from it!

Hope you're all doing well! :)

Hey dear friends!! I joined this community since I have been through stressful relationships/friendships/breakups. Friendships are born in a million different ways, and all good friends strive to achieve the same goal: to be a source of love and support. Through stressful classes, figuring out a career, and inevitable breakups, your friends have been there. A listening ear, a shoulder to cry on, or finding the silver lining in a less than ideal situation — all of it means the world to you simply knowing you have your friends supporting you every step of the way. I know how precious friends are. I have had a few backstabbing friends too. But I am truly grateful for the true ones.

@ASilentObserver

Hey everyone!

I chose to join this community just to gain more insights and advice on relationships and friendships as I continue on through life. I am 19, about to go into my 2nd year of college, so I could use as much advice and support as I can get as I go through this new journey.

I've never had a boyfriend or even a first kiss, so I really have no experience, and can sometimes feel lonely and question if I ever will find love. But I still try to hang in there!

I also just parted ways with one of my first childhood best friends last year. Just came to the realization that she wasn't as great as I always painted her to be (mainly because she was my only friend for years), but I honestly feel so much happier without her in my life. Even though I know she will never admit that she hurt me and will always play the victim, I still know that I am better off, but I wish I could've realized all of it sooner.

Basically, I have been through some drama, which is why I am here, just to help deal with it and also gain some support for the future. I appreciate everyone here and I'm very grateful to be a part of this community! :)

Hey everyone!
I joined 7 cups (today actually!) because I've been struggling a ton when it comes to being insecure about myself. I have a hard time believing people, especially when it's a compliment or anything they mean in basically a good way towards me. My issues within myself have been causing issues in my relationship, but I also have a hard time saying my emotions and how I feel which then only make things worse :/ So I figured starting here and expressing my feelings and venting here would be a good start to hopefully allowing me to open up and come to terms with things and hopefully then I will be able to express to my significant other more about how I feel and have a better understanding of myself.

Hi everyone,

I'm new to 7 Cups as of yesterday but I haven't had a lot of time to spend here yet. Hopefully today will be better. I am in a 35 year old marriage and doing a lot of self care and growth personally and spiritually over the last 8 years and I'm beginning to wonder if I've wasted my entire life with this man. We met when we were 20 & 22 (I had just turned 20) and only dated 3 months before we got married. We were both in the Air Force & madly in love when our unit announced it was closing down and sending everyone all over the world...the only way we would be moved together was as a married couple so we got married. I know. Bad idea but it sounded good at the time. Anyway...happy to be here where I can talk to people who don't know us. Looking forward to it.