To ask if anyone really knows you?

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Just that?
I don’t think anyone in my life knows me, not at all, not even the tiniest bit. I can’t decide if it’s comforting or scary that I can have had people in my life for 30 years of more as friends or family and still feel they don’t know me. Facts about me - yes. But they don’t actually know me, I feel completely removed from everyone most of the time.
Maybe I don’t really know anyone else either.

Is that how everyone is?

Nobody fully knows me. But my late DM knew me pretty well. As did my late aunt, her sister. My children (2 young adults and a teen) know me pretty well too. They are all quite perceptive and attuned. My DH and I have been together 40 years (we met aged 17). He is not naturally that good at reading people. But we have grown together and he knows and understands me pretty well. As does my best friend (of nearly 50 years).

There are other family members and friends to whom I am close who do not know me at all really.

No. Friends and family know different parts of me, but I don't think anyone really knows 'me' as a whole

No. And I would hate anyone knowing me, inside and out. DH knows me the best after 33 years together, he's quick to read my moods and predict my behaviour. But there's still swathes of me that he's unaware of and that is just how it should be.

I'm like this. Even my husband of 20yrs doesn't know me! To be honest, he doesn't even know some facts about me :)!! though he knows a few!

My siblings know most facts about me. But they don't know me either!

I don't think anyone can ever know you.

I quite like that I am my best friend! I don't judge me, I know me inside and out, and I like me! Therefore, I spend a lot of time by myself! I love my own company!! Not in a narcissistic way - I mean I'm very flawed etc... it's just that I really enjoy being with myself because I know how I tick and get me!!

I know some people who can't stand to be alone and I wonder if it's because they are somehow scared of their inner voice or being alone with themself, and maybe they don't know themself that well, or like what they see? I don't know!

But what I do know is that for me, I'm fine with knowing me! And I love being alone :)

I have a wonderful husband and 2 wonderful children and I enjoy company, but my favourite thing in the world is to be with the person who knows me best, and that's me! A long walk or drive in the car on my own is lovely :)

Your experiences with different people are new each day, so your views and values would change too without even you knowing.

My DH

DH knows me very well, I think I could put him in any situation and he would would know what I would do in the same scenario. My best friend of 30 years however, really fucking knows me, she's seen it all. We know truths about each other's inner soul that neither of us would care to admit to!

DH knows me best. My mum used to but now she's older and has dementia she doesn't really sadly.
I think I hide quite a bit from my children through. There's are things about me and things in my past I'd never tell them but we are close.
Friends and other family probably think they know me well but they really don't.

My parents and DH know me as much as it's possible to know another person

My husband. He knows me better than I know myself sometimes.