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Offline Kirsty

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New to all this
« on: June 19, 2018, 04:34:45 PM »
Hi I am new to all this and not really sure what to say. I lost my partner in March this year he was only 28 years old we had our whole lives ahead of us and now I feel completely lost and in my own I have loads of support from friends or family but the only person I want help off is my partner and I can’t have that. I can’t get my head around that am never going to see him again

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Re: New to all this
« Reply #1 on: June 22, 2018, 01:06:15 AM »
Hi Kirsty
Almost 6 months for me and Im still trying to accept that I wont see him again. Nothing I say will make it better but I have found that reading posts on here and knowing that your not alone with what your feeling has helped me.
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« Reply #2 on: June 22, 2018, 07:44:12 AM »
Thank you. As awful as it sounds it has been nice to read through meaaagwa and hear people’s atoeiws that are very similar and to know other people are going through the same thing as most of the time I do feel very alone.
People tell me it will get easier and I will learn to live with it but I don’t really want to accept that because I don’t want to learn to live with it.
He always tried to prepare me for the worst possible thing happening and I always switched off from it I know wish I had listened to him and maybe would have been slightly prepared for dealing with this

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« Reply #3 on: June 22, 2018, 11:48:54 AM »
Hi Kirsty.
I dont think anything can prepare us for this - i lost my partner at 30 and it completely knocked me - even though he had cancer and we knew what was going to happen.Years later i found love again and re-married - this time he was older, this time you would think i would be more prepared -and i would know how to get through grief again -i wasnt and i didnt because even though some emotions are something we all experience in common it still takes a different path on different occasions.

people say we get over it - we dont,  but we do get through it -  That doesnt mean leaving him behind - it means getting into a place we can cope without their physical presence but keep them with us in other, non tangible ways. Carry on for them,live life our life as if for them too and as a trubute too them - how to do that is something individual too us all and very difficult to see for a very long time - meanwhile getting through each hour and each day and being kind too yourself when you think you cant, when you think you are going mad and when you think others have run out of patience and ae less kind to you, so you must be grieving "wrongly"  just doing that is an achievement. :hug:

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« Reply #4 on: June 22, 2018, 12:44:28 PM »
People keep telling me that I am young so I will meet someone else one day, it scares me the thought of leaving him behind although I know I will never forget him but it also scares me to lose someone again after getting over this feeling, I can’t possible imagine how you must feeling having to go through this twice.
I have never thought about living my life not only for myself but for my partner aswell that is a lovely way to put things as on a daily basis I think I could happily lock myself away and not carry on with my life but then I think he always wanted us to live our life to the fullest so I carry on for that reason I will know remember that I am also doing it to carry on living his life thank you for saying that to me.
I am struggling at the moment with everyone going back to their normal lives and carrying on like nothing has changed I can’t blame them for doing that I would love to have everything normal again it’s just hard that everyone has been there so much for me and now no one gets in touch as much they don’t want to hear how am feeling when actually Now I am feeling a lot worse than I was at the start when I just felt numb

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« Reply #5 on: June 22, 2018, 10:24:43 PM »
Hi Kirsty
I'm the same, the phone hardly rings, everything for everyone else is back to normal whereas I'm still living in a nightmare. I think before my husband died I hadn't a clue what grief was so I was like 'them' so I kind of understand and forgive them in their ignorance.  I feel people don't ready want to hear about my feelings so here is a good place to air them and be truly understood. I'm also told I'll move on' eventually which I know is code for 'you'll find someone else'. It's very insensitive but I think people want us to find another so we're then sociably acceptable again and they don't have to deal with us and our grief. 5 months since my husband died and I'm starting to find a different normal, I don't accept it, I don't want it, but it's happening anyway. Just like grief itself. All we can do is take each day at a time and live in hope that long term, like others here reassure us, we'll find a way to deal with our loss without falling apart

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« Reply #6 on: June 22, 2018, 11:22:33 PM »
I could not have put that better myself everything you have said is so true I too was the same with people I thought people would want to be left alone so again I don’t blame them I know if I got in touch and told them I was struggling they would be there for me but I don’t like to bother them with my problems. I feel when people are telling me you will move on it’s just because they don’t really know what to say so think that might help me I have learned to just smile and say nothing back to them as I don’t really have words to say. It’s nice to have somewhere to come online and read other people’s stories of similar situations it’s just such a shame it’s under sad circumstances.
I recently read a book called it’s ok your not ok and I am now using that as my daily motivation I can have my moments and it’s ok to be like that this book also told me to help me through this that art is very good in the form of writing, drawing, colouring anything that involves using your creativity after reading this I decided to go back to work at a hairdresser and I found that has help massively it feels like it is the only time I feel ‘ normal ‘ although I don’t ever stop thinking about what has happened

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« Reply #7 on: June 24, 2018, 08:46:29 PM »
For me it was the garden and wildlife.I had to move and set about recreating the garden we used to have .Digging a pond is certainly one way of working through the anger stage.But it was out there when I suddenly became aware of the sun on my back and a Robin singing so loudly and persistently that just for a few moments I actually felt happy.It was a moment I have clung too ever since.Because even through the darkest times after it reminded me that there is still some happiness to be had.
I also wrote poetry a lot which I found helped me make sense of my own feelings.When you write you do need to makes sense even when your brain is scrambled.