Hey man, nice to see you.
It is indeed true that there is no substitute for in-person contact... none at all. 10 months of video only would drive me insane... to be honest I don't think I could do it. Well, if my girlfriend needed to live somewhere else for a year but she was coming back, I'd do it, but because we've been together 4 years and she's the love of my life. She's about to move in with me actually.
Next weekend we'll get the rest of her stuff, she's already been here 5 and a half days out of the week for a while now.
So yeah, that's exciting you get to see her.
Life has been crazy for me this year. Without going into much detail (because the social thread is already full of long posts by me about it), my dad is nearing the end, I got a DUI and I'm in the middle of a shitty divorce from my shitty ex... hoping I don't lose my house, retirement account and/or cats. It's been mega stressful (the DUI was in reaction to the situation)... plus earlier this year my oldest friend was super psychotic/strung out on meth and got shot and stabbed and was trying to scam me out of money all the time. He went to outpatient and then inpatient rehab and last I talked to him he finally sounded good, but now I haven't been able to get ahold of him for weeks so it concerns me again.
But, I'll get through the stuff and life will go on... I've already gotten to a much better place than I was, although I've been using GABAergics (alcohol, phenibut, GHB at different times) too much lately and I am at the point where I need to get a handle on that... I don't need to deal with withdrawals on top of everything (though TBH I fear I'm kinda semi-there already because last night I felt pretty strange and trembly which went away with phenibut this morning... but I also had a pretty big alcohol hangover yesterday. Either way, not good). So yeah, a mix of good and bad. Certainly one of the more intense/rollercoastery times of my life. But my life is still good, it's just challenging right now.
I'm finally completely off opioids (well, I'll still pop a few pills now and then when the opportunity presents itself, but no more regular habit or 'hard' opioids like fent). TBH, I probably wouldn't be if I had the money to support a habit, but I suppose it's for the best that I don't.
Be really fucking careful man. I hardly know anyone who has been able to use opiates responsibly once they've been serious addicted to them. For me, that was an addict trap for me every time, it never once worked no matter how much I tried to believe it would.