I guess this site doesn't appreciate diversity.

I don't share many personal details because I am not friends with anyone here; I have a higher standard of friendship.    And I when I have shared even a bit of abstracted points, such as my view that the Holy Mass is an act of intercourse/communion with God that far surpasses even the wonderful intimacy that I share with my wife of more than 30 years, I get mocked.  "pietistic pablum" and such!

So I limit my "vulnerabilities" so to speak, with good reason:  It doesn't help others!

Friends know what their friends are praying about.

Friends suffer cheerfully for their friends.   
They solve many problems for their friends, quietly. 
They offer Masses for friends.
They do a thousand favors for their friends. 
They may fast quietly for their friends. 

So, instead, I offer what I have learned about the interior life, none of which is my own invention or ideas, but instead from great teachers, lots of failures, and many beginning agains.