I am a senior alone. All my family members ... and my brother... died by there time I was 30.
It’s hard.
Bunny slippers I am caring for a VERY elderly parent at this time when she passes I will also be a senior alone AND it is difficult now so I know just how you feel.. I regret now not having children however my career had me working at least 16 hours a day weekends included!!!
You are NOT alone, FReepers are right here with you.
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I don’t know where you live, Bunny Slippers, but you are facing what we all either have or will face. All my kids and his kids are not in PA. MS, TX, MD and NJ claim our kids because they could find jobs there. I am a widow in a tiny 200 person town and I don’t know them and they don’t know me. We have very few interests in common and really don’t have much to talk about as many of these people are Democrats and all related to each other. I am an interloper.
I tried the “old folks gathering”, the local churches (I am a Buddhist)...no churches within 100 miles of me and I can’t drive all the time due to my MS and RA (besides the gas has been far too expensive. My own family is in CA and OR...far, very far.)
But being an introvert, I find this just fine. I do miss my kids and I am really fortunate to have found a compatible partner who like to work with machines and old trucks so he is happily occupied. I am painting with an eye to selling them. Perhaps I will or won’t...they may be bonfire fodder. Oh, well...I won’t know or care as my energy will have rejoined the interstellar spaces...or be somewhere.
I won’t be here to find out. But I found him, my buddy and friend, on O.K. Cupid. What a case of serendipity!!
Hey!
You’re in LA and I’m in San Diego!
I have to make a quick trip to Mississippi this week (leaving tonight) but after I return next Saturday, maybe we can make plans to met half way for lunch?