Hi @MJG017 

I do know about tagging with an @, and I did put one before your name before, but in the process of typing, leaving the page for a bit and finally posting it seems to have disappeared - I can’t explain it 🤷‍♀️

So I’ll start again …

Hi M  

I have used a computer for a long, long time too - back in the early 80’s my boss got a computer and I think he was as nervous as anyone else in the business 😂.  Anyway we all move on and I did all sorts of computer work, but technology these days is dazzling to say the least.  Sometimes I am mightily challenged on my iPad or with my Smart TV, and things that are done out there in the big wide world now are way beyond my imagination as to how.

So if you could tell me please how to open the ‘whole thread’ of emails that would be wonderful - I would appreciate that a lot - I haven’t been able to work it out.

As I said before I got jumped on a lot and told to keep quiet etc through my childhood, so I did - and I still am often nervous to speak up. I’ve had people say “why do you analyze everything,” so I get what you’re saying. I’m glad you have a partner - and though you wonder sometimes that maybe she doesn’t always understand you, that happens in all relationships.  She will have testing days of her own too.

I would love to have a partner, but as an older person who’s shy and nervous, that’s like finding a needle in a haystack - the dating world is a mixture of being a can of worms and walking on a minefield 😂

Tomorrow I can’t lay about in bed as one thing I have to do is get one (or maybe 2) new tyres on my car.   And I’ve spent most of this weekend in bed or on the sofa so I know I can’t do that all the time.

M I’ve been dealing with depression for as long as I can remember so I’ve gone through many bouts of it but 2024 has been ‘different’ - it has been SO much harder to manage and started me off on a down slope to where I am now.  The last couple of months has been the last straw so being able to ‘talk’ with you in something like a normal way is helping me a lot.  I’ve got all fingers and toes crossed that I can get back up and on track again, or else … I don’t want to think about that.

And can I say I like the way you talk and we do have a bit in common too which also helps, so thank you for that 👍.  I hope reading what must be a lot of sad stories and supporting those people on this forum gives you more satisfaction than it takes away from you M  - I certainly feel better for having this contact with you and one other so far, so a big thank you to you.

Bye for now M