Trust me, i've seen the worst of the worst, some of it from one of my parents! At least you are sticking to this new way of living. Good on you.
Thank you. I find the clear spaces are very calming to come home to. 
Definitely, it helps clear your mind. Did you chuck anything away that you thought meant a lot to you, but then it wasn't so bad once you'd got rid of it?
Many, many things in that category. I think getting older has a lot to do with it. I'm turning 50,
both my parents are gone now, all three of us siblings have health issues, so I'm beginning to see the road
ahead, beginning to get a hint about what it will feel like to be old, and about what might be the end of me. 
Funnily enough I quite often romanticise and long for time I was no an adult in. Like the 7-'s or the 40's or the turn of the century.
I know exactly what it is an dwhere it comes from me.
I like easy order and easier expectations.
See if you read or watch any olden day setting in media, you will notice how simplistic the roles an dexcpectations were of both males and females.
Imagine whilst at Netherfield in the Jane Austin books, whilst Elizabeth Bennett was sparring with Mr Darcy, two awkward aspies get up to dance and bumble through. The conversation is eccentruic but the ultimately rewarding and two social reject marry and combine fortunes and lives.
