I hate being alone in the house.

Ever since my husband went to his home country to visit his family/friends last week, I have been very scared of being alone in the house, I have phobia of the dark, in the day it seems fine but at night I imagine the worst, I started boarding up the main doors and closing all the windows shut, I check the locks multiple times even though I have security alarms and everything I still check it again, ,,before I lived with my husband I used to live with some other friends for many years and before that I was living with my family so I never really experienced the feeling of living alone.

Few years ago I sold a valuable watch to a woman I met online and few weeks later she sends me many messages and pictures of herself beaten up and battered saying someone had broken into her house and stolen the watch after seeing her in the streets wearing it!!! I told her how could that happen plenty of people are wearing similar or better watches in the streets no one attacked them? she said she was living alone and they had been monitoring her, I told my husband he said you really dodge a bullet by selling it that could have been you! back then we weren't living together and I was kind of living alone but in a secure building.

I wonder how other people do it? I have always been scared of the silence and darkness to the point I don't watch any horror before sleep just to keep on safe side lol.