As some of your remember, my marriage blew apart, and I found myself for a time with no where to live...My Lovely friends took me in for 4 months while I settled and had the mental wherewith all to move forward..
I just got off the phone with a common friend of the couple who helped me..She is in a similar situation and panicking.. I talked her down and offered my upper floor rooms for her to live in while she sorted her life out..She burst into tears..(and so did I)...
We women of a certain age with no supports need to prop each other up...
I am paying it forward ...I am so grateful for the gift of a place to lay my head..I want to do the same for someone else.
She is coming on Tuesday to stay for a night or two to see if this could work for her.
I hope she decides to come and stay...We will both benefit.
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Posts: 11215 | Location: Massachusetts | Registered: 22 April 2005
Originally posted by LL: What a nice gesture. And so like you.
Thanks, but it benefits me as well. I have been living here alone for more than a year. The job sucks the life out of me and I come home to an empty house.
Having someone here at home with a great sense of humor, will be a benefit to me as well.
And I see now how my friends had told me they felt when I lived with them. Another person in the house broke routines, gave us more to talk about every day..and just was more fun!
-------------------------------- "Wealth is like manure; spread it around and it makes everything grow; pile it up, and it stinks." MillCityGrows.org
Posts: 11215 | Location: Massachusetts | Registered: 22 April 2005
I'm always surprised this doesn't happen more often. With 50% of all marriages ending in divorce, there must be millions of people at any given time who know someone who needs a safe place to park and has a spare room.
Good luck with your new roomie. I hope it's mutually-beneficial.
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Posts: 13811 | Location: The outer burrows | Registered: 27 April 2005
Jodi
