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Karen Lindberg Jefferson's avatar

Liz, if you only knew how un-weird you are.

Grief is a long and bumpy road.

And any number of folks are willing to walk alongside... silently, or gregariously chatting.

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shelley brown's avatar

I am relatively new to loneliness having been with my husband for 40+ years. He died 2 years ago. I have always been independent so I thought being lonely would not happen to me. I was wrong.

Its been hard for me to accept. As Elizabeth writes, you think the people around you are all in the happy company of others. That is true in many instances, but not in all of them. I am learning that

you don't have to be alone to be lonely, but one of the differences being, profound grief gives

you a loneliness that only you can feel, and that can really bring you down.

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