Tonight I was browsing around reading journals when I came to one that talked about not liking to hear people asking how we are doing like they should be reading our minds about how we are doing. And how it is so generic. How do they expect we are doing. Then I start sending out hugs and find I am doing the same thing. I am asking people how they are doing and asking if they are well. And I sincerly mean it. We shouldnt fault people for not knowing how to aproach us. I'm one of you, a widow or a widower and I'm not always sure how to aproach the subject. I personally dont know how I am. I'm in limbo. I'm good one minute and not the next.And I know every one of us on here have the same feelings. My question is how can we expect people to know how we are when we dont know ourselves. So when I write and ask how you are doing know I trully care. And I know you all do too when you ask me. So when people ask us how we are doing lets try to understand its not easy for the people who have not lost a loved one to aproach us its not even easy for me and I've been there. I think people really care how we are doing and we should understand that it is a very uncomfortable situation for them.
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I agree my friend..I normally say..I am hanging in there..one day o.k then next not..but I am surviving...That pretty much stops the rest of the questions. I think people want us to be Ok so bad and they don\'t know how to help ua and you know unless they have been there they really can\'t..Love ya, Glenda
I agree with you. I never really thought about it before. The problem is no one in my family ever asks how I am doing because they don\'t want to hear that I am falling to pieces one minute and okay the next.
I totally agree my friend. Everyone just thinks I am doing fine, when on the outside I am putting on a front so that they won\'t worry about me, but inside I am just dying along with JIm. I know I need to get out of this slump, I just am realizing that I will possibly never have TRUE happiness again.....Love to you, Alice
I also really care how each of you are doing on your journey through the dark place. Sometimes I am in the bottom of it, and other times I crawl into the light for a while. I do not ask, just to be polite, or say what I am supposed to say. I want to know if you are in the darl place. I might join you there. Love and prayers for us all,Peggy
LORI, I END UP DOING THE SAME THING!! IT\'S NOT THAT I DON\'T ALREADY KNOW!
IT\'S JUST WHO I AM TO ALWAYS BE CONCERNED ABOUT POEPLE THAT I CARE ABOUT. AND YOU ARE THIS WAY TOO. YOU PROBABLY READ ONE OF MINE....LOL! I USE TO COMPLAIN ABOUT THAT COMMENT ALL THE TIME. I HAVE SINCE DECIDED THAT MY REPLY WAS GOING TO BE....\"OH YOU KNOW, ONE DAY AT A TIME\". SO FAR IT\'S REALLY HELPED. PEOPLE GET THE HINT REAL QUICK. DON\'T FOPRGET THAT I AM HERE FOR YOU IF YOU NEED SOMEONE TO TALK TO!!