How much do you compartmentalize your life?

Question

Do you have different screen names online to talk to different kinds of people?

Do your friends and lovers not know about eachother?

Does it feel like you lead a double life?

Do you talk about friends and family at work or talk about work with your family?

Or do you keep everything separated?

Answer 1

I just keep my work and my personal life separated. It's better this way, I don't want to bring my problems from work at home.
It doesn't feel like leading a double life, they are just two different aspects of my life.

Answer 2

a. yes b. friends = lovers c. absolutely d. uh huh e. I guess so

What can I say? I am a secret agent in training. No, but if everyone knew everything about me, I doubt they would...wait, they don't like me anyway. I might as well fess up!

Well, what happens, I'll be at work, and if someone asks the mundane, "how was your weekend" bit, it's just normal for me to go on about my boys, how we had a blast, who I slept with, how drunk I got, how awesome the club was, how tired I am from dancing and debauchery...

But then, I realize, your co-workers become your second family after awhile. They all came to visit me at my father's funeral. I'm not sure whether that was comforting or embarrassing but, they were telling my mom how sorry they were. As much as I try and separate or unite, things have a way of tying themselves together. I realize everything in my world is connected. And I am the glue.

Answer 3

For the most part, I "keep everything in one box". Everybody knows everyone and everyone knows everything. A little tough on them, but easier on me. I don't have to keep straight what is in each "box".

If you have friends or family that blow up easily when you tell them things they don't like, it's easier on YOUR emotions to keep everything in different "boxes" and not tell them things.