Sorry to hear mate. I went through a similar phase at the tail end of 2021, triggered by 3 different incidents. First one was a big top of the table game, really enjoyed it, lots of great feedback including from the away secretary (who's team had lost), bit I got absolutely destroyed by the observer and got a really bad mark. Second was having a player attempt to headbutt me a few weeks later and the third, not long after was a big cup game, where I made a fairly bad mistake early on and at the end of the game got accused of being a cheat and it went fairly wide on social media.
I was dreading games, I'd get to the morning of a game and be willing myself to pull a muscle by slipping in the shower or something like that so I had a genuine reason to not do the game.
I don't know what happened to turn things around, had a week or so off with a planned date closure, spent some time speaking to some of my refereeing mates and gave myself a plan to go out and give it 100% until the end of the season, then decide what I wanted to do. The past month or so has been good, I've turned the corner and really started enjoying it again, so I'd suggest you try and stick with it.
One other thing, I'd say that Step 7 is probably the worst level in adult football to referee at. They are the first step on the pyramid so often have a bit of a high opinion of themselves but they are in truth not that good, plus you have CAR's. I find that the level of discipline at Step 7 is worse as well. Going out in a 3 at step 6 and above is chalk and cheese to step 7 and far more enjoyable.
sometimes it does start to feel like a grind and when you get incidents like yours then it exacerbates that feeling and lack of enjoyment.
