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I do know I have people who love me even if we rarely see each other. But ya know how it feels when you are with someone who loves you? You get hugged or they make ya tea, or you laugh together?
I am starving for that, have been for years. My son usually keeps in contact. He just quit his job as a number one lead man for a major remodel company. He is getting licensed and bonded. This is huge. Going off on his own. He is tired of this companies owners not being efficient. Tells him a job will be ready on a certain day and it is not, even after he tells them no it won't be ready as we do not have the permits yet. In Oregon its a circus if there is an oak tree ya gotta work around etc. i like that but can be hard for contractors.
anyway I told him I had lots of faith in him. I have seen him get jobs all the time from referrals and from him just talking to people. He has taught himself everything. even calculus. When he found out he was a genius, he was upset and cried beforehand as he thought he did terrible!
anyway i see him almost never now and if I don't call he does not.I understand he is busy and wants to concentrate on work. I don't say M please don't forget me, I miss you so much and miss your love. I don't ask him to take me anywhere.I don't want him to feel guilty.
I seem healthy but who knows! If I died he would feel awful. He cannot even face I am old now,passed middle age.
Anyway I do my best getting love from these crazy animals I live with. I read every night, I study my Bible every day. Talk to my HP contantly. I told myself everytime I see a rock or something shaped like a heart, it is hp saying he loves me.
Just this morn I saw an indention in front in the pathway, shaped like a perfect heart!
Took my friend out all day, Heidi. I bought her an armoir she wanted. She is having a cabin built. Then she found a very cool love seat. never seen one like it. Its extra wide and long. very pretty. sooo we each paid half. lol I feel good with her as she listens and we both care about each other.
Miss that feeling of being in a loved ones arms you know? Like gma and mother. just sorta stay there awhile. I know I was soooo sooo blessed with so much love in my life and was shown it. More than most. I think that is why this is so devistating for me. I always do my best to make people feel loved. Even strangers. Just my nature I guess and the fact I want people to know they are special. they are.
I tell myself I have had wonderful men who were in love with me and showed me, a family in the past who were delighted with me, when my kids were little I got a million pictures and notes about loving me.
Give up hoping some one will send me a card. When I had the last knee surgery it was hard. No one to take me or pick me up or help me that was family or close friend.So I asked on my fb if people would send me notes on paper or cards or pictures I didn't care what! I got tons of them.I am telling you it was soooo wonderful.
at night I dream and I am not alone. sometimes I don't want to wake up. Mostly I dream of my first husband. Its so strange he is so real to me and I feel his love still, its been 33 years.
I also always pretty much carry around trepidation in my guts. I have a gun now so that helps. I will be that old granny with a shot gun shooting at meth addicts.lol with my thousand pound pig next to me and geese biting their bums...
i mean of course i miss love, I went from abundance to about zero most the time. thank hp I have what I do though. Its still a lot. but I do miss humans.....
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Putting HP first, always <(*@*)>
"It's not so much being loved for ourselves, but more for being loved in spite of ourselves."
"I do miss humans..." That is wonderful to read, Debilyn. It is so, so very good. I'm not going to give you ideas on how to do that. You have more ideas in your head than I'd ever have. And for all of your animals and all your fb and MIP friends, I have been concerned that you might be a little isolated - maybe more so than a lover like you can deal with? So, this is intended to be an affirmation of your soul's cry for you to make a few changes for you if that is possible? Okay - I'm not going to give you any ideas on what to do it - I am going to say: Face of Love, Debilyn, get out there and mingle.
Well I'm sending you all the love I can muster across the ocean, but I do like the image of you "getting out and mingling".
People are the best medicine, is what i have been learning lately.
PM me your address, next time I see a card that says Deb to me I'll send it to you
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If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see? (Lewis Caroll)
SENDING MANY HUGS, WARM THOUGHTS , AND LOVE TO YOU DEB. YOU ARE A WONDERFUL WOMEN WHO DESERVES TO FEEL THE LOVE WE ALL HAVE FOR YOU.
MAYBE WE CAN LOOK FOR A MIP REUNION SOME DAY.
Deb, you are such a wonderful person, you do so deserve to be with someone who will fill your life with love and I wish that happens for you. Is there any friendship groups that you can join, that are not to far from where you live?
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"Forgiveness doesn't excuse bad behavior, but it
does prevent bad behavior from destroying your heart". ~ unknown
I always feel so much love from your posts. You have such a beautiful heart and you are an inspiration to me. If you pm me your address I will get my daughter to make a picture of you and your animals and send it to you.
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Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip toe if you must but take the step.
I just love your heart Deb and I do know what you mean about wanting someone on earth that can just hold you and make things all seem better. I do wish that for you and think it will be hard from where you live to find it but nothing is impossible with God. I would love an MIP reunion some day! Sending you much love and support always!
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" Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional."
"Serenity is when your body and mind are in the same place."
my son knows. but he gets stressed out and worried about me so I don't tell him anymore.
No i cannot get out. My disabling condition makes it impossible. i only leave home maybe three times a month. When i was out with Heidi, I took her for lunch and I got sick. Lets just say my condition is very embarrassing. When I had a complete hysterectomy, the doc did some thing wrong, nicked a nerve or something. So it can be extremely incontinent in both ways.
Then add the pain,and cannot move fast,and many of u know the fun of when u get up from sitting.....coughing,u get it.Sometimes I have to run and just get in shower with my cloths on!! ugh.
No way could i teach anymore. Or finish college.It got so much worse when Ah went nuts.
It is life.Many have it much worse.`
It is the fact of not having any family left where i could hang out at their place as they made it my home too.My friends have their husbands uno?
This is what I mean when I say I want to go home,and why S leaving me was so devistating.He was my friend for ten years,then told me he was in love w me.then went away.
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"It's not so much being loved for ourselves, but more for being loved in spite of ourselves."
Just read your reply to grateful so I have amended this. I didnt know you were disabled, maybe there are services in your community that will get you company. Is that an option? I know here there are all kinds of groups and services for people who are isolated. Im sorry you feel this way and it will pass. Gratitude lists each day help me.x
-- Edited by el-cee on Sunday 28th of September 2014 06:37:55 AM
Debilyn: Whenever I think of where you live, I also think "barn dances." I know you love animals, music, laughter and your land. I can see a whole group of people that you invite enjoying things like square dances, group sings, potlucks, snipe hunting, bonfires, group games that all persons contribute to as a fellowship of equals. It could start out with just 3 people invited with you being the 4th. And maybe it could grow? Or a community garden plant to which you could invite folks you trust to your land to begin one with you? I know I said I wouldn't give you ideas on Saturday. After reading of your disabilities, I decided to share what I am thinking with you on Sunday. (((D)))
Sending you love, Debilyn. I worked as a rehab therapist for many years and saw some very disabled people get out and about. You and I are about the same age; I am not old and neither are you....bet we could cut up on the dance floor at one of those barn dances Grateful mentioned!
I terribly miss the feeling of love. I feel I'm in a loveless, sexless drifting 'relationship'
every night my partner goes upstairs to 'secretly' drink in the bedroom. Today I got really pi**ed off and poured her vodka down the sink, leaving the bottle where I knew she'd know I'd done it.