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[possummink]

Just a gentle reminder!  

[possummink]

[geezerette]

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@possummink wrote:

Just a gentle reminder!  

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So very true.

It's now been three years since I've held the official title of "widow", and I can honestly say that I've hated every day of it.

My hat is off to you ladies that have done this for decades.  I can't imagine that.  Not to be morbid, but I hope I won't have to experience it myself.

Thanks to you all for keeping a place alive that I know I can come to when it all gets to be too much.❤️🕊

[Silkeej]

Hi Possummink:   Your crew is adorable. Willow looks like my GD cat. They all show your love and how good you take care of them. Thanks for sharing your fur crew with us. 

[Silkeej]

Hi geezerette:  I know how you feel it is very hard to be a widow. There isn't  a day go by I don't miss my DH. What I wouldln't give to hear his laugh again or see his sweet face. I don't know why we were picked to be alone as we age but we were and  I know it is God's will and I have accepted it. Come October it will be seven years yet it seems to me like yesterday. I never tire of going out to the cemetery to see him, it's the one place I can go that I think he might be there too. When you loved someone as much as we did our DH's the grief is always part of you life, I still have tough days that remind me of what I have lost. I feel like you do this is a place to come when my donker is down and I need a smile or a reminder I am not alone.

[geezerette]

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@Silkeej wrote:

Hi geezerette:  I know how you feel it is very hard to be a widow. There isn't  a day go by I don't miss my DH. What I wouldln't give to hear his laugh again or see his sweet face. I don't know why we were picked to be alone as we age but we were and  I know it is God's will and I have accepted it. Come October it will be seven years yet it seems to me like yesterday. I never tire of going out to the cemetery to see him, it's the one place I can go that I think he might be there too. When you loved someone as much as we did our DH's the grief is always part of you life, I still have tough days that remind me of what I have lost. I feel like you do this is a place to come when my donker is down and I need a smile or a reminder I am not alone.

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@Silkeej 

Thank you so much for your thoughts.

This is exactly what I was talking about--that you understand how I feel.  Many people, including other widows, don't.  They don't understand the depth of feelings we held that can never be replaced.  

I love and appreciate my family and friends, and I certainly don't discount the trials and tribulations they go through in their own lives, but there is an area that they just can't comprehend.  

I can tell that you understand that area, @Silkeej.

I'm sorry that any of us are here, and sorry for the bad days you have.  But it does help in some small way to know that you're out there and going on as best you can too.❤️

And all those adorable pictures that @possummink posts help to remind us that there are things in life to smile about and appreciate.🥰

[phluphy]

Geezerette & Silkeej, I am with you when you mention how much you miss your husbands.  Mine is gone 7 years on Valentines Day.  I just can't get over his being gone.  Every day I miss him, not a day goes by that I don't.  A song comes on that we loved and I still cry.  We used to dance to some of those songs.  I dream about him a lot. One night I sat up in bed and called him because my dream was so vivid.  I too come here for Possumms pictures, they are so special.  I just moved last year to be closer to my family and don't regret it at all.  Stil trying to get settled. I miss him in the mornings when we had our coffee together and at 5;30 when he came home.  Dinner was a special time to talk.  Thanks for being there.  I loved him with all my heart!!!!!

[Bird mama]

You gotta love Moose @possummink   He just goes all in.  How did you tolerate your second vaccination?  I'm a list, just waiting patiently until they get to my age range, lol.

[Silkeej]

TO: geezerette and phulphy 

[Snoopp]

It's good to know it's not a place to stay, and good to remind ourselves it is a passage.  Passing through it sure does take forever though.