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Posted on 08/08/2025 3:24:01 PM PDT by Jonty30
Several weeks ago, I had a serious health scare. The emergency appointment and ultrasound were attended alone. I did a ring-around of my friends and sisters, but they were away or otherwise occupied. All I wanted was someone to hold my hand and give me a bit of moral support, but on a sweltering hot day, I sat alone in the hospital waiting room – a solitary figure among a sea of cosy couples, with only my Kindle for company as I bounced off the walls with anxiety. While the scare turned out to be just that, the stark realisation that my friends weren’t really there for me when it counted, and that I was utterly alone, was an unpleasant wake-up call. As a childless, unmarried woman of 63, it is difficult to admit how terrified I am of ending up alone and being eaten by cats. Read Next: I tried eight types of coffee bean – a supermarket brand was the clear winner Without the silent contract between parent and child, Someone we look after and who can take care of us, the loneliness wears more and more heavily on me. I find it devastating to imagine ending my days isolated or worse, going gaga and incontinent in a care home. Like many women, I had always expected to get married, have children and maybe even a house in the countryside. It never happened, but not by design – I left it too late. Looking back, in my twenties and thirties, I was about as ready for the chains of matrimony as I was for joining the Women’s Institute. I didn’t want my life mapped out for me.
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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.
And yet you are judging................
I didn’t read past the excerpt, but did she mention attending a church at all?
Volunteer!
“We’re born alone, we die alone. And in between we Garden!” ~ Diana in Wisconsin
Happens with aging narcissists. They eventually drive everyone away.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I read three articles she wrote (posted all here)—the word “church” was not mentioned.
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.
She should join a convent.
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.
Never take candy from a stranger.
Always keep score so that you can use it to justify some meanness later.
Not prejudiced though.
Heard all the evidence. Made a judgment.
People do it every day. Doesn’t make us “judgey”.
“”Church family will be about it.””
They will be more dependable for sure.
“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.
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