The Guilt and Loneliness of Pretending to Be Older at 15 🔍😔

I am 15 and I pose as a 20-year-old on a virtual metaverse app. I don’t do anything sexual or anything with adults, but I have this particular best friend who is actually 21, and we are real close friends. But the guilt is eating me up, and I really think of him as a good friend because I don’t have anyone else. We have gone through the same things and are quite similar, but I cannot tell him that I am 15. So, I decided to stop talking to him, and now I feel lonely.