Be prepared, if you can

 I posted this on my personal page. I thought it was worth posting here.

**Count yourself lucky if you have someone to share your life with, someone to hold you and sleep next to you. Someone to say, I love you, sweet dreams and know they are there if you need them.

Prepare yourself for the time when you don't have that special someone you love and hold dear next to you.
Prepare for the emptiness, the solitude, the days and nights of just existing.
Prepare for being alone, lonely, unloved and feeling unwanted.

Prepare for the grief you must endure, because you walk that path alone.
Prepare for the lack of understanding and oftentimes the help promised that never comes.

Prepare for the way people treat you because you aren't a couple anymore.
Prepare for the cruelty of some family and friends. They don't bother with you unless you have something they want.

The list goes on forever.
Every widow and widower say the same thing.

I wouldn't wish this experience on anyone.

Be prepared. Don't think it won't happen to you. Because if you have a life partner, one of you will go through this.

I'm not upset or being mean. I wish someone had told me this, prepared me for this when Bob died. I was lucky I met Henry. He helped me through a lot of it.

Then he died and I was thrown into it again. This time it's much worse. I understand now why older people die of broken hearts.

May peace be with you.

Nov 24, 2023 6:16:55pm