Living Alone

It's been years since I've had my house all to myself. After my divorce, I was alone for a while but then brought on a roommate who mostly kept to his bedroom. He ended up moving out of state and then a bit later my then-boyfriend moved in. While we were together, we got a third roommate, who then left after graduating college. When we broke up, he still needed a place to live, so he stayed on but with his own bedroom. A year or so ago, a friend of ours needed a new place to stay, so he rented one of the bedrooms. This past fall, though, I asked him to move out so that my girlfriend could move in.

So, if you couldn't follow all of that back and forth, suffice it to say I haven't lived alone for more than a year, and it wasn't all in one continuous stretch.

To Hide or Not to Hide?

I've been working on this blog for a few days, writing posts that will automatically post in the coming days and registering my blog on free search engines. However, I haven't shared it with any of my friends or family.

I'm afraid that if I let them read my posts that they'll think I'm being hypocritical, or that they will think that I'm not doing as well as I think I am. I'm afraid of their criticism, afraid of disappointing them. What if they think I'm a fraud?