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I’m 63, single, child-free – and my friends weren’t there for me when I needed them
www.msn.com ^ | August 6, 2025 | Kate Mulvey

Posted on 08/08/2025 3:24:01 PM PDT by Jonty30

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To: P.O.E.

There should be a reverse-motion detector that senses when an unusual amount of non-motion is going on in an elderly abode.

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That is a most excellent idea that with today’s technology could be accomplished. You should find out a way to market it.

In grade school I imagined “habi-trail” and in HS I imagined “stay free” pads for women. If I’d have said something, I’d have a few bucks to throw around.


121 posted on 08/08/2025 5:03:53 PM PDT by KittenClaws (God is true to His Word.)
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To: vivenne

And yet you are judging................


122 posted on 08/08/2025 5:05:00 PM PDT by vis a vis
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To: Jonty30

I didn’t read past the excerpt, but did she mention attending a church at all?


123 posted on 08/08/2025 5:06:19 PM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: All

Volunteer!


124 posted on 08/08/2025 5:06:56 PM PDT by bennowens
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To: Jonty30

“We’re born alone, we die alone. And in between we Garden!” ~ Diana in Wisconsin


125 posted on 08/08/2025 5:07:24 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: Z28.310

Happens with aging narcissists. They eventually drive everyone away.


126 posted on 08/08/2025 5:07:53 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: Jonty30

I have family but I don’t call them to hold my hand when I need to go to the doctor to have a test. Three years ago I had to go in for a Arteriogram to check for blockages. I did not call and ask the anyone to come help me. Frankly I would have done it by myself except they insisted I needed to have someone to drive me home.

So I asked my neighbor who is a retired doctor, and his wife and they were happy to help me out.

It is sad that at 63 even her one of her sisters would not help her out. Makes you wonder what the family relationships are.


127 posted on 08/08/2025 5:08:14 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: TigersEye

I absolutely cannot collect up any pieces of sympathy. This woman is one of the slavering, spittle-lipped, bug-eyed useful idiots that the Left uses as cannon fodder to destroy society.

She is a tool. A willing one, but a tool.


128 posted on 08/08/2025 5:10:32 PM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est.)
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To: Jonty30

I call it solitude. Peaceful. Simple. Sane. Predictable. No jerks around to depress or offend me and vis versa. No Fate But What We Make.


129 posted on 08/08/2025 5:10:53 PM PDT by know.your.why
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To: Lizavetta

Yup.

My sister and her “significant other” were hard core vaxxers—and they knew I was not—but they were very civil about it and we just agreed to disagree.

No big deal.

That is why my sister and I remain close.


130 posted on 08/08/2025 5:12:05 PM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: mac_truck

I read three articles she wrote (posted all here)—the word “church” was not mentioned.


131 posted on 08/08/2025 5:13:37 PM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: Jonty30

I heard a saying:
Single man lives like a king and dies like a dog.
Married man lives like a dog, but dies like a king!

i think, she is in the dog stage.


132 posted on 08/08/2025 5:13:56 PM PDT by AZJeep (sane )
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To: Jonty30

She should join a convent.


133 posted on 08/08/2025 5:14:28 PM PDT by erkelly
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To: Jonty30

These articles need to read at age 17.
At that age everyone has the it won’t happen to me attitude , but it will .

And as another poster stated, sometimes life happens to people anyway with little they did wrong and they can end up this anyway.


134 posted on 08/08/2025 5:15:18 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (“I don’t really care, Margaret.”)
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To: Jonty30

135 posted on 08/08/2025 5:17:17 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: Jonty30

Never take candy from a stranger.


136 posted on 08/08/2025 5:22:13 PM PDT by Varsity Flight ( "War by 🙏 the prophesies set before you." ) I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite warriors. 10.5.6.5 These Days)
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To: Jonty30

Always keep score so that you can use it to justify some meanness later.


137 posted on 08/08/2025 5:24:42 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: vivenne

Not prejudiced though.
Heard all the evidence. Made a judgment.
People do it every day. Doesn’t make us “judgey”.


138 posted on 08/08/2025 5:28:13 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: MachIV

“”Church family will be about it.””

They will be more dependable for sure.


139 posted on 08/08/2025 5:28:55 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III; FRiends

“We treat friends who do not have this to as much friendship and care as they are willing to receive.”

My Mom will be 89 this September and we have a HUGE, rag-tag bunch of ‘friends’ that she’s adopted along the way in her life. It really IS the only way to live. I remember many meals as a teen when some new ‘friend’ was invited over for Supper. And The Holidays? Anyone that had nowhere else to be was invited to Mom’s Table. I’m not talking random people off the street - these were people she met in her everyday life, liked and ‘adopted.’

I have inherited many of them, and they will be pulled into my immediate circle when she passes. My Mom is a great example of how to love SELFLESSLY.

This lady needs to help/embrace OTHERS and quit whining about the empty life she’s built for herself.


140 posted on 08/08/2025 5:30:15 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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