psychic vampire. wrote:Both of my romantic partners had separate devastating news this week, and I have been asked to not mention it to friends, but it is making me confront a lot of feelings about impermanence and mortality and yadda yadda yadda. they are both being very stoic and I just want to break down.

Related bit of words from someone else:
....For those of us on the fringes (and let's face it with 7,000,000,000 people in the world right now, even those of us at the very extremes of the curve, have at LEAST a few million others just like us out there somewhere right now - no one is alone!). If I can die knowing I've helped put a few of us outsiders in touch, helping one another, particularly helping pass on what we know to other new people, and encouraging each other to be more proud of who they are, I will be a happy man.