Hello Northbelle: Well... since you wrote you cooked for a family for 30 years, I'm presuming you're a bit of an older person. The Skeezyks is as well.

I am pretty-much reclusive at this point in my life, although I am still married. (My wife's accomplishment... not mine.) I do wonder sometimes what kind of basket case I would be if I didn't have my spouse here to keep me more-or-less on track. Truth-be-told, I often wish I could simply be left completely alone 24 / 7. But I suspect that the reality of this kind of situation for me would in all probability be ugly.

I don't know about how I deal with confusion. I have intrusive thoughts that race through my mind from the time I get up in the morning until I fall asleep at night. I replied to another thread, here on PC, just a few minutes ago where I mentioned that I sometimes wonder if I may be developing dementia... or if my mental state is simply the lingering effects of a lifetime of depression, anxiety & fearfulness. I guess time will tell.

My wife & I have a dog we walk at least twice a day every day whatever the weather. (We live in a townhome & don't have a fenced yard.) I also do some walking meditation. I maintain pretty-much the same routine day-in & day-out. Plus I seldom go anywhere (except to walk the dog.) So one day, for me, is pretty-much just like all the rest. Oh... & the other thing is that I am mostly non-verbal. I just don't have much to say & very little urge to talk. In fact, this has been one of the more difficult things my wife has had to learn to live with. Anyway these are the sorts of things I would say are perhaps helping me to deal with confusion.