{"id":12568,"date":"2023-03-04T20:04:51","date_gmt":"2023-03-05T04:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=12568"},"modified":"2023-03-05T08:29:59","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T16:29:59","slug":"oh-my-god-as-if-im-not-stressed-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2023\/03\/04\/oh-my-god-as-if-im-not-stressed-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, My GOD! As if I&#8217;m not stressed enough."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I was having my coffee when my doorbell rings.<\/p>\n<p>It was a sheriffs deputy. Guess what, he was doing a wellness check on me.<\/p>\n<p>WHAT THE FUCK????<\/p>\n<p>The minute he asks if I know a particular person I know exactly what\u2019s going on and I\u2019m fucking livid! I have never been so angry at anyone in my life.<\/p>\n<p>I wasn\u2019t angry at the officer, I was angry at the person who called the fucking police to take time out of their day to come by my house for nothing.<\/p>\n<p>The issue was that I was sick and tired of talking to this particular person. So I\u2019d simply stopped answering the phone.<\/p>\n<p>I really thought nothing of it. I\u2019ve got shit to do, I\u2019ve been outside shoveling snow for the past week or so with my neighbors.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got other stuff to do as well and I have no desire to be pissed off or bummed out by some overly dramatic nonproductive conversation with this person. Who the fuck does this bitch think she is, calling the cops?<\/p>\n<p>For fucks sake! I have a family that is checking in with me every day. Sometimes I don\u2019t answer them either. It depends on what I\u2019m doing. Maybe I\u2019ll get back to them in a day or two.<\/p>\n<p>This person isn\u2019t even <strong><em>MY<\/em><\/strong> friend. She\u2019s a friend of my deceased partner! There is little to no connection between us.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m more likely to answer calls from my family because they don\u2019t cause me an hour or two of emotional pain when they call. They don\u2019t rehash the same shit from their unresolved trauma over and over again. They don\u2019t talk over me. They don\u2019t tell me how to live my life. But this \u201cfriend&#8221; does all of the above.<\/p>\n<p>This person keeps trying to force me into grieving my loss like <strong><em>she<\/em><\/strong> thinks I should.\u00a0Then to top it off, as if she owns me, she calls the cops to <em><strong>enforce<\/strong><\/em> her will on me. The cops ask me to call her. What are we in? Kindergarten?<\/p>\n<p>Take a fucking hint lady, I was only marginally interested in continuing a relationship with you, out of respect for my partner. But\u00a0<strong>NOW<\/strong> oh hell no! I&#8217;ll be cutting all ties.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m really sick and tired of having to remind people that I am a 60+ year old adult male and am more than capable of taking care of myself. \u00a0I&#8217;ve been doing it for decades.<\/p>\n<p>To any of you that may think otherwise, or that I need a mother, or a parent, or a controller\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>BACK OFF!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>LEAVE ME IN PEACE. I&#8217;LL GRIEVE, IN MY OWN WAY, IN MY OWN TIME!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> HERE&#8217;S SOMETHING ELSE YOU SHOULD KNOW, \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;LL THRIVE IN MY NEW LIFE!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I was having my coffee when my doorbell rings. It was a sheriffs deputy. Guess what, he was doing a wellness check on me. WHAT THE FUCK???? The minute he asks if I know a particular person I know exactly what\u2019s going on and I\u2019m fucking livid! I have never been so angry &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2023\/03\/04\/oh-my-god-as-if-im-not-stressed-enough\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Oh, My GOD! As if I&#8217;m not stressed enough.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168,84,72,6],"tags":[171,188,183,187],"class_list":["post-12568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-annoyances","category-bullshit","category-idiots","category-rants","tag-annoyances","tag-bullshit","tag-idiots","tag-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12568"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12571,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12568\/revisions\/12571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}