Hello Friends,
Thanks for the comments on my last post. I have been candid to a fault, which has not worked well for me. My new perspective is neither adventurous nor bold and not proactive.
I do want friends, and I do want like-minded friends within the BDSM social order. I am not going out of my way to precipitate this; my focus is on running my home and caring for my family. You may recall we came here invited, and did that not work out well. I now live with it. It has left me not knowing people where I live and with little opportunity to change that.
It is more akin to me being an alien whose UFO crash-landed and does not have much to go on about how to adapt. Yes, I have a place to live, food, and healthcare. My primary VA counselor reminds me that I am a social creature and need to relate to sentient beings like myself. The one window brought me to financial disaster because I was too trusting and too magnanimous: The Internet. I should have known better and should have responded to the "Red Flags" I encountered. I am over all that and adapted better to my current life. Our oldest grandson is making a difference.
Our oldest grandson, who is 30 years old, criticizes the family for their lack of positive action and has stepped in to fill big shoes to help me. He has enabled me to have appointments without added expenses, and in turn, I am helping him with his guitar lessons. I have also gifted him several guitars I will no longer require.