Does anyone have a hard time when it comes to your colleagues leaving to go home to their families, leaving you alone once again? It's like a switch gets flipped Friday afternoons that causes a panic attack almost every time. I don't know if it's because I have severe and extreme abandonment issues from being orphaned at an early age or that I'm tired of living alone - or both or something else entirely. Does it feel like the end of the world every week? Yes. Is it? No. Does it take me a few days to get my equilibrium back early the following week? Yes. I don't have much time to recover in between and some weeks are worse than others, even when I have things planned after work Friday and on the weekends. I just want this trigger to go away.

The Kid