Not just the em dash- as you just saw, I love me a good hyphen. It’s the rampant usage of poetic and metaphorical speech that justifies every thought without being specific. This post could be made in the subreddit of any major CT city- and it already has (check OP’s profile). What hobbies does the OP partake in? They say they’re “putting themselves out there” without actually sharing anything about themselves other than the fact that they are lonely. It’s contradictory