tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6728194511488715371.post2018040693654653666..comments2023-10-11T06:18:48.856-07:00Comments on Widow in Oxfordshire: The Lost and the LonelyJennyBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06299696371149571479noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6728194511488715371.post-35740227473430550062008-06-28T15:25:00.000-07:002008-06-28T15:25:00.000-07:00Today I went to the one Saturday Green Gym per mon...Today I went to the one Saturday Green Gym per month and someone told me how cheerful and full of fun I am. Oh how they don't know the real me, but how glad I am that I can act really well.<BR/><BR/>It's good to communicate with people like you who know exactly what's really going on. Keep acting!JennyBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06299696371149571479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6728194511488715371.post-14609135067371200272008-06-28T07:15:00.000-07:002008-06-28T07:15:00.000-07:00Jenny, I am glad to be of help. Your posts help me...Jenny, I am glad to be of help. Your posts help me just as much. It can feel like a very unfriendly world sometimes, and hearing that someone else is having the same feelings and experiences helps me feel normal too!<BR/><BR/>I talk to bloggers who are single, and find that we are all in the same boat, combatting isolation, feeling abnormal (and sometimes enjoying the freedom - let's be honest). The only difference between them and me is that I am not used to being single. I suppose I was spoiled all those years, of being able to lean on someone else without question, of having someone else to share (or take) the responsibility, of being able to be weak and feeble sometimes, knowing that he would take the strain. I should consider myself lucky, having had a mostly happy, lengthy marriage, but it is hard, much harder than I thought it would be, to get used to the endless aloneness.<BR/><BR/>Now I am back to square one again, with as much in common with my son and his young, single friends, as with my own married friends - no guarantee of finding love, just the hope and the openness to it. My son fell in love out of the blue (as you do) a year ago, and he and his beloved are still together and set, apparently, for life. It was fun to watch that love spring up overnight, and it gave me hope that love can pop out at you when you are least expecting it.<BR/><BR/>Take care, keep those snakes at bay, and keep posting - even about the bad stuff!Puddockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05117007460664110289noreply@blogger.com