@Powderfinger
hello lovely
I'm a bit depleted right now, I've had a huge abcess on my tooth from which I am now recovering
the thing is, I don't have a quick fix or immediate answers for you
your relationship with your girlfriend was heady stuff, rapid and intoxicating - I understand that feeling of instant connection and how it seems like you were always together - somehow inexplicably joined by the greater powers of the universe.
That was what happened with me and the very ill man with whom I am now making my life. I have to confess that almost three years later I wish I had been a little more circumspect at the outset as I have made a very hard road for myself. If I had pulled the pin sometime in the first year - taking the advice of all who knew me - my life would be much happier and easier.
I stayed to avoid the gut-wrenching pain of separating. I believe I made a mistake but now our lives are too entwined and he and his family rely too much on me for this to ever change. I'm not unhappy, but I do wonder sometimes why I've made my own life so hard. I guess the grass is always greener.
When my husband died, about a year before I met this bloke, I thought I would never emerge from the horror of suddenly finding myself alone. The thing about life is that it just keeps moving. The clock keeps ticking and we keep revoloving around the sun.
In my experience, what seems insurmountable one moment is no big deal a week, a month or a year later. My old mum always used to say "these things too shall pass", which I believe is from the Bible, but it's what keeps me going some days.
As far as your living arrangements go, you seem to me to be the sort of person who may find more peace living alone than sharing with a stranger. Is the prospect of you finding more modest accommodation alone out of the question?
So I have no real insight, I have no solutions, but I am listening and I do send hugs
S x