I Believe Life Is a Life Long Lesson

@Stilltryinghard well, things may be different than here in the UK, but maybe it is better than what u have at the moment

@Afc71 You know I lost an SW friend in a very nasty way because she is in the UK shaking a finger at me about I am the cause of my own misery and I had better know I CHOSE this situation...to supposedly get liberated from it.

Really.

Then I apologized and she is still snubbing me.

SW friends. Yup.

Homeless camps too.

@Stilltryinghard well, we're not all like that in the UK, but people on SW are no more to ne trusted than any other stranger that you chat to on any other social network. I am sorry u experienced this response though.

@Cierzo Getting lost in the sports is travel too...to something inside that is unutterably inaccessible

@Stilltryinghard I meant the physical travel in space. I think it is often used to avoid inside travelling

@Cierzo at any rate these people are always traveling AWAY from someone who could use some company and validation.

@firefall we don't like one another. I am here only because he didn't care if I came here or not when I was in an emergency situation...I knew him decades ago and so he was not really a stranger, and other than that, we are in separate universes.

I can't find how to have a life when I have to come home to this neglect which actually feels abusive.

I am past 70 and have zero money and no job skills to get any kind of comparable living situation so I stay cause the pets are here and the garden etc...instead of dirty sidewalks and a warehouse to eat in and maybe a shopping cart to push and a homeless camp to live in.

Anyone would opt for this nightmare instead.

Yup.

@Stilltryinghard Ahh. That's terrible, to have such bad choices, I am sorry to hear it. If your housemate is of comparable age, he might just feel defeated and pointless without having a job, a purpose for his life?

@firefall He has two jobs and two sources of pension, all being collected by him now. I never said otherwise. Meanwhile I don't have enough skills to buy my way out of here so I am enslaved in a kind of way as an involuntary caretaker when he doesn't care about himself the house or us, let alone me alone.

Its a ghastly situation but if I hadn't been here for the last 15 years I would be dead or in a homeless camp.

And really the ONLY difference between this and a typical bad marriage is that we don't love one another, we don't touch one another and we aren't pretending to care. We are just stuck with each other.

@Afc71 what kind of mothers did these guys have in your opinion?

Please help me by saying something...there's someone like that in the house where i live

@Afc71 for what???? And what if THEY don't agree?

@Velvety of what???

@Stilltryinghard About all topics in life a person can talk about or entertain themselves on.

@antonioio meaning????????