[Jessibuns]

I had an absolutely awful day today.
I started romantically talking to someone I matched with on a dating site a couple years ago, it didn’t work out then but we remained friends. Decided to try again (didn’t work out before because it was too soon after a breakup for me so I wasn’t mentally ready lol). It’s going well now, it is long distance but ya know lol.

Anyways that was the backstory, let me get to today. It started with me slowly inching to tell my mom about this person and whatnot. I started by asking about our enhanced IDs and what they essentially do that’s different from normal ones lol, and then I asked about passports, because my person is moving to Canada in a few months because it’s super unsafe to be trans in the US now with orange man in office lol. And my mom asked why I would need a passport. And I simply told her it was because I’m talking to someone who is moving to Florida, and in case I ever wanted to visit them if things progressed more ya know lol. “Is this the person you’ve had phone calls with lately, the one from Florida?” Yes. “Take my advice, just don’t do it. Don’t entertain the possibility.” And I’m like, “it’s too late for that, we’re already talking romantically”

She blew up. She called me stupid. She told me I’m lonely and depressed and that those two qualities make me the perfect target to be a victim, easily preyed on by crazy people. She spent the entire car ride to work just berating me. Rapid firing everything I’ve done in the last three years that she’s viewed as a mistake. Told me I’m almost 31 and need to start using my brain and stop talking to people from the internet. That I can find someone if I just socialized more.

So I got to go to work upset, and then like everything that could go wrong at work, did lol.