Six Months
I can't help but wonder if I'll ever have a life again. I don't see one yet. I can't even picture in my mind what life is possible without Gene. I don't go anywhere, I don't do anything really except go to work and come home. I've had invites to visit or go places with friends and I can't seem to get myself out of the house. I don't know why except that I still have terrible anxiety about breaking down and ruining someone else's good times. I don't do any of the things I used to before Gene died like my crafts. Simply put, I don't know who I am without him. How do I find myself again? Is there a life out there somewhere for me? I don't have the answers. I have to rebuild myself and I don't know what the first step in the process is right now. I can only relate it to having your house burn down and then having to rebuild it from scratch. But there's a handbook for that, there is no handbook for rebuilding your life after the loss of your husband. Right now I live in a rut of going to work, coming home, eating dinner and watching TV until it's time for bed. I can't go on like this forever, I know that. I need to find a way out of my grief and into a new life. It's what Gene would want me to do. Where do I begin? Will it just come naturally in small ways? Or do I have to conciously make the decision to make it happen. No answers today, only questions.
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