Isolation and Trust Issues

[mosaic]

we totally understand what you say here. we tend to isolate as much as is possible (with a husband it isn't 100%)

we love what we do for work, and find that it's still draining even though it isn't with LOTS of people... and so when we get home we're ready to have down time...

then we feel isolated, and even beat ourselves up for not "gettng out there" with friends, etc... but truthfully that's more exhausting.

we have only shared our multipleness with a choice few friends, and mostly keep it to ourselves for fear of rejection, as well as needing to keep a professional presence in 3D for our work. i think where we live now one person knows besides hubby, and she's been trustworthy.

we believe it's a real difficult balancing act, honoring the introvert aspect of our nature while trying to not leave us feeling totally isolated too... for us it's complicated in that marketing our practice is something we feel we "should" be doing, but it takes far too much energy and that's where we get overrun by anxiety/fear of rejection.

i think i've rambled on... but we totally resonate with your dilemma of not wanting to be isolated and needing to be safe.