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Bozoette Mary - 2006-04-19 14:20:52
Joe and I both went through a bad time when SonnyeBoy left -- but it really hit his second year at college. We got through it though. It's a weird feeling; it's both very sad, because they're not "your little one" anymore and suddenly you feel like you're not needed, but it can also be a very happy feeling, because now you have this wonderful grown-up person in your life who is also part of you. And that feeling stays, thank God.
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zen - 2006-04-19 15:00:53
i only have one child so when she left to go away to school i had a really hard time with "the empty nest" syndrome. i felt so lost and lonely. at first i couldn't even go in her bedroom or i'd start crying! that is when my hubby bought two of our birds! i fell in love with them, especially my thea. i guess i really needed something to nurture and thea provided that for me...and she's such an affectionate little bird...loves to sit on my shoulder and give me little kisses. and she was so dependent on me! i felt like a mommy all over again! i ended up buying two more birds! so i literally filled my empty nest! *smile* one thing i noticed too, is that my hubby and i got a lot closer once it was just the two of us! ~zen
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debbie - 2006-04-19 21:58:20
rest assured, the prodigals return from time to time, jetta is here right now, she wants to sleep on the floor for a couple of weeks, until they move to colby. she prefers it here than over at michael relatives, they dont talk much & they dont have all the good munchies, unlike at home. here where we reside our mouths never shut up, we are either blabbiing or feeding our faces, one of those hobbies, lol, can sometimes cause more problems than the other so we try to gnosh more than we kibble & bits, heh heh.
thats really a bad place to be in, wherever & however a person lives, where pain is so urgent & utmost a feeling that a bottle of pills look the most appetizing. i have been there before, many years back. i was also so bad off that every second was a loud silent scream inside my mind that only i could hear. i do mean every second. awake or asleep. it was that unrelenting. for years. it even literally drove me insane, so much so that one time i thought that i was Jesus and that john was john the baptist & that he was my only disciple left who remained true & the two of us had to escape together. he was all for it, mental maven that he is, but there was nowhere to run to escape. how funny of a story it makes now but at the time it was very frightening. pain causes the mind to really suffer, to what degree is the only variation. i hope you never get like that. i hope you arent there already. what really hurts is to go to a doctor in such a sorry state as such & the only thing they address is how mentally insane a person seems, if that much,they never put two & two together, never seem to know or realize or even care to know that it is physical pain that is causing the mental agony, not the other way around. maybe it was a good deal that i had one little helper, john....the baptist, lol. he's a saint, i just know it ! roflmao.
hugs, hb the real nut !
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Denver doug - 2006-04-19 22:01:32
Hee, hee, with five kids the nest doesn't really get empty until there are grandchildren on the scene. It was a bit grim when the baby of the family married her loved one, but then we sold the big old house and moved into an apartment.
I do so hope that you can get some relief from the pain. When it is ever increasing it is almost impossible to cope with. Our prayers for you.
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Stefani - 2006-04-20 06:01:32
You've come a long way in the last couple of years from when you and the girls weren't getting along so well. I'm glad that's changed! I keep thinking I'm not expecting much in the way of empty nest feelings when Simon leaves - except that just means it will hit me squarely between the eyes when I least expect it. He's a couple years away from moving out anyway, so of course it's hard for me to imagine. You'll get through it, I'll get through it, everyone does.
I'm keeping a good thought about you and your pain, every day.
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Sunshyn - 2006-04-20 10:55:41
I get an empty nest every Saturday morning through Wednesday afternoon. I WISH the 31-year old would jump out of the nest, though -- he's taking up way too much room (come ON, inheritance!). I left a comment on your comment on nerve scrambling. I don't know if it worked yet -- it's sore from the procedure, and it can take up to two weeks to get relief (and then only lasts around six months).
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