Recent content by RevenantSkeptic

Thanks, Evie. For further context, here is one of my very last posts under the name 'hyperskeptic'.

I used to post here as 'hyperskeptic,' but I buried that account a few years ago. I've returned from beyond to offer a warning that will no doubt fall on deaf ears. So it goes.

Some context: I used to post here as 'hyperskeptic'. My long series of posts under that name started out hopeful, then devolved into a record of disintegration and despair. I've been divorced now for just over two years, riding out the pandemic in the wreckage of what was my life. At least my...

So, you're a middle-class white couple who have been married for 15 to 20 years. You have a mortgage, a couple of kids, a dog and a cat. Really, it's the American dream. Except . . . something seems to be lacking. The spice or the spark or the something-or-other has gone out of your marriage...