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Siameseplease
November 8, 2010

It's about losing you

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My husband passed away almost fourteen months ago. A few nights ago, I had one of my meltdowns about it and composed the journaling. Tonight, I put the journaling on a LO. This LO is for the scraplift the person before you challenge. I lifted paper obsessed's LO called "finally!"

Journaling says:
I read somewhere that a widow thinks that if she can make it through the first year, things will be okay. Then the first year comes and goes, and she discovers that the second year is worse. In that first year, you're consumed with shock, but nothing is how it will eventually be. You're too busy dealing with estate things, attention from others over your newly widowed status, getting the house in order, and so on. That second year pops up and those things are done, or nearly so. Everyone else has gone back to their lives. The concern is still there, but the constant attention wanes. The estate details are taken care of. Your new normal sets in. This new normal is sometimes really lonely. I can, and have, called on friends or family during some of these lonely times. That's when I discover that the loneliness has nothing to do with being alone and everything to do with losing you. It's not just loneliness; it's loneliness wrapped in loss and tied with a big bow of longing. I hung a plaque in our room a few months ago, because it suits how I feel so well. It says, “The truth is, I'd rather do nothing with you, than something with anybody else.” I just wish you were still here, so that we could do nothing, together. Instead, I got stuck with one big, suck @ss present.


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