Widows & Widowers Support Group
This community is dedicated to those who have lost a husband, wife, or partner. Anything is open for discussion here, with the hope that we can focus on grief, bereavement, life after loss, and continuing on after a great loss.
I've looked in stores, healthclubs, churches, even movie theaters. They used to be out walking around, hanging out, buying stuff--heck, whole industries were based on them. But now they're nowhere.
I first noticed the phenomena about twenty years ago. I was in my thirties then, but I notice a decline in the sighting of this elusive group. Didn't matter though. Not then. I simply hung out with others I could find. I was accepted, having the ability to blend in. Then I got married and we made couple -friends--you know, the ones you hang out with together but they disappear the minute you become a widow.
Which brings me back to.......
I lost my husband at 53. We had a happy marriage, but now that I'm alone I figure I'd get out there, go places, do things. I didn't want to date, just have some friends around my age. Simple you think. Only some things haven't changed.
I STILL CAN'T FIND THE BABY BOOMERS AND THEY SEEMED TO HAVE TAKEN GENERATION X WITH THEM.
Now, I'm the oldest person nearly everyplace I go.
Anyone else notice this?
I first noticed the phenomena about twenty years ago. I was in my thirties then, but I notice a decline in the sighting of this elusive group. Didn't matter though. Not then. I simply hung out with others I could find. I was accepted, having the ability to blend in. Then I got married and we made couple -friends--you know, the ones you hang out with together but they disappear the minute you become a widow.
Which brings me back to.......
I lost my husband at 53. We had a happy marriage, but now that I'm alone I figure I'd get out there, go places, do things. I didn't want to date, just have some friends around my age. Simple you think. Only some things haven't changed.
I STILL CAN'T FIND THE BABY BOOMERS AND THEY SEEMED TO HAVE TAKEN GENERATION X WITH THEM.
Now, I'm the oldest person nearly everyplace I go.
Anyone else notice this?
The other thing I think about this, morbid as it may see is that I may well only find friendship now amongst though who have been bereaved as it has changed me so much. It has hit me harder than anything I have ever experienced and none who have never been there could never know or understand me.
Good luck in your search, I wish you well in your future.