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Stasia 4
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Registered: ‎08-17-2011

More on BEING ALONE . . . .

‎02-27-2012 09:08 AM

I hope you don't mind that I am starting this thread about being alone, which I wanted to post after reading the thread Living Alone. I didn't want my post to get lost in that thread because it is so important to me to have discussed . . . .

I'm absolutely TERRIFIED about the prospect of being alone in my old age. I skimmed all the responses in the other thread and noted that a couple of you are happy living alone and wouldn't have it any other way, but that's not what I'm talking about here.

Currently, I live with my DH. He's a bit older than I am. Other than DH, just my mom is the only other person who I am close with. I fear that both of them will pre-decease me, leaving me completely and utterly alone. One poster in the Living Alone thread expressed her fear of dying unnoticed, but she has children. I do not. I just don't have a younger person, who I am extremely close with, who might be able to help me out in my old age.

What does someone like me do? I have no idea. Who will take care of me if I become suddenly ill? Who will "find me" when I die? Who will have me buried in a plot I have already paid for? Who will manage my will?

Lately I have been stressing over all these questions and sometimes I feel like crying. I can't help my life's circumstances. BTW, I have the wherewithal to get things done, but my shyness is a drawback.

Is there ANYONE out there in my situation? . . . . help. .{#emotions_dlg.crying}

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