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I was brought up the wrong way in life, was bullied and ostracized and grew up with almost no friends. People who were supposed to be the role models in my life were not very good role models at all, biological father left when I was 5, a bipolar narcissistic mother, a racist and sexist step father for the majority of my childhood, second step father never worked a day in his life and has no financial balance, older sister was on drugs and became a teenage mother, older brother was always in and out of juvenile detention and also became a teenage father. With all the people people I was surrounded and grew up with and all the bed events that happened while I was still developing, I quit school when I was 17 when my grandmother passed away and spent the next couple of years locked away in my room living at mom's house and living on her allowance, dealing with depression, anxiety and other mental and physiological issues due to my past.

Never got my driver's license until 20 (almost 21
Got my first job at 21
Started lifelong career at 22.5 (also self employed
got my first car at 24
Turning 25 in November and just getting ready to move out of my mom's house

It's been a long journey and I'm proud of the man I've become basically on my own. But when I hear people say that they had their first job at 14, license and car at 16 and moved out at 18 tends to discourage me and I feel far behind. I try to look at the positives.

I'm still young
I make better lifestyle habits
I have no kids
I have no addictions (which runs in the family
I have $0 in debt (never went to college and I also paid back my mom
I have a great credit score
I have an actual mortgage on a nice house
I make enough to support me and a stay at home partner

I started talking to this really awesome girl I knew from high school. We had instant chemistry and we were attracted as well. But they unfortunate part was she was a few hours away for school.
But during that time we got to know each other very well. She opened up about her relationship with her siblings and issues with her parents because she was the youngest and less successful. She also opened up about the hard relationship she had gotten out of 6 months prior.
We formed a better connection because of that, because I was in the same situation.
We were planning to get together during a two week break she had, but I wasn't able to get off work and her brother returned from the military and couldn't make the day's work.
But she had a month off a few weeks later so we just made it work. She kept saying she wished I was with her while she was up there.
But the day she came back down, I changed my schedule to get off early and I picked her up, but it didn't go well. She didn't say anything and asked to go home because of a migraine.
During the ride home, she said she wasn't as ready as she thought and said she needed more time to be over the old relationship. She insisted she liked me, I wasn't a rebound, and I was an amazing guy she wanted to be with. But she said she still didn't have closure and felt betrayed by her ex.
Perhaps I was too sympathetic, and I told her I understood and kissed her on the cheek. She gave me a big hug and looked very sad.
But she wasn't the same and would talk about her ex or be unkind to me. So after she snapped at me for asking how she was doing, I stopped talking to her.
I blocked her on social media and never heard from her.
Did she not actually care like she claimed? Was I truly a rebound?